Quotes About Trust

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

You think you are about to possess what men have hopelessly yearned for throughout the ages: the soul of an innocent, trusting, dependent child inside the opulent body of a radiantly lovely woman.

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn't been one big decision.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie vergessen hast.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.

What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

four-fifths of the words attributed to me are things I never said, and would not agree with. If your words cannot stand on their own, adding my name won't make them less flimsy

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

te po?i certa cu adev?rat numai cu fra?ii t?i ?i cu prietenii apropia?i; ceilal?i sunt prea str?ini pentru a?a ceva.

The relationships that are damaged are often your best.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

to lend a book is an incitement to theft. A Reader on Reading p. 281

Já eu, raramente empresto um livro. Se quero que alguém leia um certo livro, compro um exemplar e ofereço-lho. Acredito que emprestar um livro é incitar ao furto.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.