Quotes About Trust

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him, to prove he's managed it. Playing God again, you could say. Or you could come down a few notches, and think of Tinkerbell; fairies don't exist if children don't clap their hands. Or you might simply say: it's just like being a man. Not only the need to be believed in, but to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt.

Guilty secrets make paranoids of us all.

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En aquella metrópoli de lenguas y cuchicheos, ni los oídos más finos oían algo fidedigno

That's the least of it. The most of it is, he was always careless with people's hearts. He never took any responsibility for what he broke.

True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough times to make it as good as true.

Perhaps it was wrong to lie with her. Another duty, another obligation, another potential source of guilt. Was I lying to her in lying with her?

But what, after all, can a baby do except swallow all of it and hope to make sense of it later?

I'm beginning to understand why people get religion. Just to have something solid that doesn't change into a slippery snake without a word of warning.

Aurora's studio she stole three charcoal sketches of me as a young boy, sketches in which my ruined hand had been wondrously metamorphosed, becoming, variously, a flower, a paintbrush and a sword. Miss Jaya took these sketches to my Dilly's flat and said they were a gift from the 'young Sahib'. Then she told Aurora that she had seen the teacher pinching them, and, excuse me, Begum Sahib, but that woman's attitude to our boy is not a moral one.

Vecina y amiga. ¿Qué más tengo que decir? Por supuesto que las maliciosas revistas de escándalo de la ciudad llenaron columnas con insinuaciones y frases de doble sentido, pero ello no nos autoriza a ponernos a su nivel.

un país donde la verdad es lo que se le dice que sea, la realidad, de forma absolutamente literal, deja de existir, de forma que todo resulta posible salvo lo que se nos dice que es real;

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

To agree to keep a secret is to assume a burden

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

Honest people are a refuge: You know they mean what they say; you know they will not say one thing to your face and another behind your back; you know they will tell you when they think you have failed—and for this reason their praise cannot be mistaken for mere flattery.

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity.

To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.

A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoidedby following a single precept in life: Do not lie