“The Germans -- once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans mistrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things. . .”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.”
Ronald Reagan
“When mistrust comes in, love goes out.”
Irish Sayings
“One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed”
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
Albert Schweitzer
“I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.”
Michael Palin