Quotes
Quotes about Distrust
My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
