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“We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.”

“America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.”

Knows Men Country America Law Fields Objects He Man Members Authority Claims Experts Resentment Distrust Professionalism

Author:W. H. Auden

“Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.”

Men World Knowledge Despair Endless Distrust Deficiency Erasers Disharmony

Author:Orlando Aloysius Battista

“Distrust interested advice.”

Advice Distrust

Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“... I distrust manifest knowledge.”

Knowledge Manifest Distrust

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.”

People Country Cities Corners Manifestation Righteousness Distrust Cleverness

Author:Edward Hoagland

“You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”

Turns Water Trust Sticks Alcohol Distrust Alcoholism Crooked Can't Trust Anyone

Author:W. C. Fields

“The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.”

Distrust Dupes

Author:Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.”

Feels Shows Feelings I've Learned Distrust

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?”

Might Doubt Horror Intellectual No Doubt Distrust Vocation Slumber

Author:Vaclav Havel

“The best way I have found to follow my true desires is to pay attention to my intuitive sense. We all have great wisdom within us, a part of us that knows exactly what we need at every moment. We are born with this intuitive sense, but most of us are quickly taught to distrust and ignore it. We have to relearn something that should come naturally. Fortunately, it's not too difficult; it just takes some practice.”

Knows Way Needs Should Moments Desire Found Difficult Born Pay Attention Practice Taught Intuition Best Way Pay Attention Distrust Intuitive Great Wisdom

Author:Shakti Gawain

“It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.”

Past Time Distrust Impatience

Book:The Works of Symon Patrick: Including His Autobiography

Source: The Works of Symon Patrick: Including His Autobiography

“It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.”

Way Journalism Journalist Reporters Distrust Objectivity Auras

Author:Georgie Anne Geyer

“Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!”

“You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.”

Knows Believe May Doubt Trust Suspicion Distrust

Book:Shuttlecock

Source: Shuttlecock

“Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?”

People Giving Seems Doubt Institutions Blame Response Tendencies Have Faith Distrust Constructive

Author:Pratibha Patil

“I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.”

Long Party Careers Sacrifice My Family Defense Communist Dislike Distrust Communist Party

Book:It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living

Source: It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living

“The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.”

“Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.”

Cutting Trust Cards Distrust Trust No One Self Trust Trust Others Trust Honesty Trust And Honesty

Author:W. C. Fields

“The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue.”

Political Passion Social Virtue Healthy Democrat Complexes Convinced Schemes Founders Distrust Conservatism Invincible Redeemer Complex Systems

Book:The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz

Source: The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz

“I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.”

Writing Kind Done Life Is Too Much Logic Instinct Vague Interiors Distrust Impatient Overrated

Author:Barry Hannah

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

People Ifs Friendship Trust Ethics Mess Distrust Real Friends Trustworthy Trustworthiness Trust Others Trust Worthy Not Trusting Trusting People Not Trustworthy

Book:Two Cheers for Democracy

Source: Two Cheers for Democracy

“I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.”

Men Feels Littles Pleasure Blood Greatness Produce Desert Great Men Pool Distrust Uniformity Little Man

Book:Two Cheers for Democracy

Source: Two Cheers for Democracy

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