We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
Josefa Iloilo
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
Franz Boas
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
Frank Pittman
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
Henry A. Wallace
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
Aldrich Ames
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
William Temple
When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich Nietzsche