45 Quotes About Distrust

Let’s face it — no matter how much we want to trust others, we can’t help but be wary of what we don’t know. When we perceive someone as untrustworthy, it’s generally because there is something that we don’t like about them. These distrust quotes come to the rescue and help you learn to accept people for who they really are.

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That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult..then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children and say, "The children are the hope of the future." And they are right. Children are the hope of the future. But adults are the damnation of the present, and children become adults as surely as adults become worm food. Adults are the death of hope. Peter David
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I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side. Criss Jami
She dreamed of autumn. Of chilly autumn winds and soft...
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She dreamed of autumn. Of chilly autumn winds and soft fall rains. She could even feel the cool moisture as the rain drops touched her face and ran down her cheeks. Grace Willows
Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a...
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Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism. Amit Kalantri
The actuality that the heart does not want to feel,...
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The actuality that the heart does not want to feel, doesn't negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel. Itohan Eghide
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We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet girl, there are wolves at the door. If we are not careful, they might eat us. Ruta Sepetys
The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through...
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The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible. DaShanne Stokes
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Playing nice" comes naturally when our neuroception detects safety and promotes physiological states that support social behavior. However, pro-social behavior will not occur when our neuroception misreads the environmental cues and triggers physiological states that support defensive strategies. After all, "playing nice" is not appropriate or adaptive behavior in dangerous or life-threatening situations. In these situations, humans - like other mammals - react with more primitive neurobiological defense systems. To create relationships, humans must subdue these defensive reactions to engage, attach, and form lasting social bonds. Humans have adaptive neurobehavioral systems for both pro-social and defensive behaviors. Stephen W. Porges
A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.
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A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous. Aravind Adiga
Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the...
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Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed. Suzy Kassem
Voting is not a right. It is a method used...
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Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you. Dennis E. Adonis
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To be naive is to be unaware of how stupid and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the opposite of naivety in being a kind of cynicism, in being unaware of their intelligence and humanity. It seems to be a normal although unfortunate case that the great many of us consciously abhor ignorance in others yet subconsciously practice it ourselves: as naivety is apparent and well-known to inflict its damage upon oneself; whereas the alternative and the easier, ignorance, its damage upon others. Criss Jami
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Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible. Criss Jami
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Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert. Criss Jami
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A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here, " he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it. . Stephen M. Irwin
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Smartass Disciple: Master, can you trust this bank to keep your money safe? Master of Stupidity: Well, I can put a bit less distrust on this bank than others. Toba Beta
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My first impression of [Patricia Highsmith] was a loneliness, a sadness in one so young (we were both in our early thirties) with absolutely no sense of joy or balance. Gauche to an extreme, really physically clumsy as well as boyish, it was almost impossible to put her at ease. It was as if she felt a deep distrust of everything. Patricia Schartle
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Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful. Criss Jami
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Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love. Bryant McGill
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Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day? Where were youwhen I was silent with God in prandial pray? Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay? Where were you? Kamand Kojouri
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Some survivors can be wary of most people, yet blinded by compassion toward fellow survivors or others who suffer – or who pretend to suffer, or exaggerate their sufferings, in order to take advantage of the survivor. Some survivors overidentify with other survivors, not realizing that even if someone was traumatized or suffers in a similar way, it doesn’t necessarily mean that person is honest. Being either overly suspicious or overly trusting can create problems with a partner who is able to judge the sincerity of others more realistically. Aphrodite Matsakis
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Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character. Criss Jami
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Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless. A.J. Darkholme
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In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution. A.J. Darkholme
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Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others' motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it is nearly impossible to find good solutions to effective communication. Deborah A. Beasley
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They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness. Wilkie Collins
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It is a strange thing that the human species can only go three days without water and three weeks without food, before the body dies. Yet, so many people can go years hanging onto pain and feeling emotionally dead inside. I suppose if it was the other way around more people would go to school to be morticians because of the booming business, or pastors would have to hand out Valium with the sacrament, just to keep the census high. Shannon L. Alder
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If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected, ” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love. Amy Carmichael
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Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love Johnny Rich
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Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict. Robin Jarvis
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A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, " Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. L.m. Montgomery
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed. Eudora Welty
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Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive. . Theodor W. Adorno
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Nita: I think I overdid the vulnerability stuff in this last letter. and that’s why I’m having an anxiety attack. Howard: With the vulnerability comes the possibility that you’ll be betrayed. Now that you’ve laid yourself wide open, I am the agent of this betrayal? It’s not my style. Nita: I’ve thought it wasn't other people’s style, too. Sarah E. Olson
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Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear. Michael Bassey Johnson
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal. Tennessee Williams
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We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal. Tennessee Williams
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The superior weapon of choice to fight ineffective, unwarranted distrust and fear, is a commitment to believing in others, coupled with a charitable heart; it is then that logic and intellect can be most successfully employed to deal with such negative emotions. Connie Kerbs
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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