Quotes About Trust

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative', is asking you not to believe him. So don't.

Smith emphasized that trust, responsibility and accountability exist only in a society that respects them, and only where the spontaneous fruit of human sympathy is allowed to ripen. It is where sympathy, duty and virtue achieve their proper place that self-interest leads, by an invisible hand, to a result that benefits everyone.

The goal, Karel said, was not to tell explicit lies but to destroy the distinction between the true and the false, so that lying becomes neither necessary nor possible.

The most important input into conservative thinking is the desire to sustain the networks of familiarity and trust on which a community depends for its longevity. Conservatism is what its name says it is: the attempt to conserve the community that we have

When I put my trust in a critic, this is tantamount to saying that I defer to his judgement, even when I have made no judgement of my own. But my own judgement waits upon experience. It is only when I have heard the piece in question, in the moment of appreciation, that my borrowed opinion can actually become a judgement of mine.

Anyone can lie. It suffices to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, however, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included. The liar can pretend to be shocked when his lies are exposed: but his pretence is part of the lie. The fake really is shocked when he is exposed, since he had created around himself a community of trust, of which he himself was a member.

This is possible only if we retain our trust in negotiation and in the sincere desire, among politicians, to compromise with their opponents. Hence in both Britain and America it is necessary for conservatives to defend the politics of compromise, and to protect all those institutions and customs that give a voice to opposition. This

Smith did not regard economic freedom as the sum of politics, nor did he believe that self-interest is the only, or even the most important, motive governing our economic behaviour. A market can deliver a rational allocation of goods and services only where there is trust between its participants, and trust exists only where people take responsibility for their actions and make themselves accountable to those with whom they deal. In other words, economic order depends on moral order.

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.

And the man clad in black and silver with a silver rose upon him? He would like to think that he has learned something of trust, that he has washed his eyes in some clear spring, that he has polished an ideal or two. Never Mind. He may still be only a smart-mouthed meddler, skilled mainly in the minor art of survival, blind as ever the dungeons knew him to the finer shades of irony. Never mind, let it go, let it be. I may never be pleased with him.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot du Lac to the Keep of Ganelon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.

Never trust a cat, anyway. All they're good for is stringing tennis racquets.

Only friends steal books.

You fertility deities are worse than Marxists, he said. You think that's all that goes on between people. We were just friends for a time, but she is too hard on her friends and so loses them.

My books were all on their shelves. Nobody steals books but your friends.

Do you honestly think I am going to let you die? I need you-as many of you as I can save.

Tänan, ütlesin [Merlin]. Nüüd olen ma kõigeks valmis. Sa võid nii enesekindluse huvides väita, ütles Vialle, aga ära seda kunagi usu.

It seemed as if everyone I met knew me, and as if everyone were playing an elaborate double-game.

I still thought you might be behind the whole thing. You or Brand. I had it narrowed down that far. I thought it might even be the two of you together-especially with him struggling to bring you back.

The blow fell upon Jasra's jaw, and I barely managed to free Frakir in time to keep from being dragged backward with her into Luke's waiting arms.

The mind is a funny place. I do not even trust my own.

The price of being an Amberite, I suppose, is that you cannot even trust yourself.