Quotes about Distrust

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.

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

The distinguishing marks of fundamentalism in the broad sense are: biblical literalism; total inerrancy, including perfect factual accuracy; revelation as essentially propositional; a profound distrust of biblical criticism, especially higher criticism; premillennial eschatology; and the call to separate from apostate churches.

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

Science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.