Not Trusting Quotes

• I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

  Chris Cooper

  Horse, Mean, Combination

  "Seabiscuit Interviews: Chris Cooper". Interview with Staci Layne Wilson, www.horse-races.net. July 15, 2003.

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• I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Trust

  "Do Not Love Your Neighbor as Yourself... Yet" by Rea Nolan Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2014.

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• Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

  Alfred Adler

  Trust, Work, Commitment

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• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

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• I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Trust, Cheating

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• I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Trust, Drinking, People

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• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Faith, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Trust, Leadership, Truth

  "Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

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• Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

  Maya Angelou

  Trust, Drinking, Laughing

  "Maya Angelou: Best-Selling Poet Shares Story of Her Life and Work" by Brent Cunningham, www.buffalo.edu. April 30, 1998.

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• Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Wise, Men

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• He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

  Laozi

  Trust, Taoism, Doe

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Trust, Love Life, Joy

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• Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

  Daniel Handler

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  "The Penultimate Peril: A Series of Unfortunate Events #12". Book by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), October 18, 2005.

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• Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Trust, Betrayal, Suffering

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.123, Macmillan

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• Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

  Nicolas Walter

  Trust, Father Son, Men

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• We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

  Alison Croggon

  Mistake, Mean, Evil

  "The Riddle". Book by Alison Croggon, November 1, 2004.

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• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Trust, Cheating, Pain

  Samuel Johnson (1752). “The Rambler”, p.79

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• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Trust, Real Friends

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

  Democritus

  Trust, Silly, Men

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• The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

  David Amram

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Egalitarianism

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• Not trusting your sixth sense, will always -and I mean always- come back to haunt you. Have the courage to stand alone and trust your vibes.

  Sonia Choquette

  Mean, Vibes, Stand Alone

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• Christian's family lived under the shadow cast by his parents. They had purposely become Striogi, trading thier magic and mortality to become immortal and subsist on killing others. His parents were dead now, but that didn't stop people from not trusting him. They seemed to think he'd go Strigoi at any moment and take everyone else with him. His abrasiveness and dark sence of humor didn't really help things, either.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Dark, Thinking

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• The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

  Bobby Jindal

  Government, People, Belief

  "Jindal: Obama's woes flow out of big government philosophy" By Bobby Jindal, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

  Tim Heidecker

  Entertainment, Skeptical, Models

  "Tim Heidecker on youth, Louis C.K. and why 'The Comedy' is 'grotesque'". Interview with Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. November 15, 2012.

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• None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

  Idries Shah

  Should, Masters, I Can

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.12, Octagon Press Ltd

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