(95 quotes found)
“Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.”
Lord Chesterfield
“The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them”
Camillo di Cavour
“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
Frank Herbert
“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.”
Bertrand Russell
“I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”
Susan B. Anthony
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
William E. Gladstone
“You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.”
Alvin Toffler
“I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.”
Joe E. Lewis
