Quotes About Trust

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Building trust requires talking and thinking about trust.

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

Peace comes with trust, which will grow from continuing efforts toward mutual understanding and trade, Romeo-and-Juliet-style marriages, conversations,negotiations, and individual commitments.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

When we say that trust is an emotional skill, this implies that emotional competence is a necessary part of trust.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

The implication, in the minds of some, was that it certainly appeared that Fletcher wanted to be sure someone else was in change when the fatal blow struck his task force.

This was Lenin's doing. How did he come to regard Stalin as suitable for membership in the inner circle of Bolshevik leaders?

was suspected in certain quarters of informing to the police on people whom he wished to see removed from the scene.

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

One of the problems with anecdotes is that they tend to be provided by the satisfied customers, not the unsatisfied or dead ones.

Politicians play on our fears to manipulate us.

It is not that hard to understand why most of us believe strongly in things that are palpably not true. We have a natural propensity to see causal connections where there are none and our beliefs are constantly reinforced by people we like and trust. For many people, one vivid and emotionally salient experience validated by a single neighbor or shopkeeper trumps a thousand randomized, double-blind, controlled scientific experiments.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a prayer as well as the next man, and leave it to Heaven to judge the result.

You don't understand a lie, Molly said as we paralleled an ancient boardwalk gone white with salt, until you understand the motivation behind it.

But he could have been lying." "I don't know that he ever lied, Tyler. He was just a little stingy with the truth.