Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.
There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
. . . I distrust manifest knowledge.
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
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.
Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading. ” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.
In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.
Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down.