Quotes about Distrust

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

Deceit finds its way into every religion, including Christianity. In fact, deceit was at work from the very beginning. Two sorts of deceit are found in our verses: some leaders deceive the people of God (7:15—20), while some deceive themselves (7:21—23).

I do not mind Bedouins,—I am not afraid of them; because neither Bedouins nor ordinary Arabs have shown any disposition to harm us, but I do feel afraid of my own comrades.

Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Henry added with apparent anxiety, 'You're wet through, Sarah. One day you'll catch your death of cold.' A cliché with its popular wisdom can sometimes fall through a conversation like a note of doom, yet even if we had known he spoke the truth, I wonder if either of us would have felt any genuine anxiety for her break through our nerves, distrust, and hate.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.