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Quotes About Trust

this change has caused another transformation—in how people see the police. "I don't think [people in poor neighborhoods] see the police now as enemies.
~ Johann Hari
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
~ Johann K. Lavater
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'
~ Johann K. Lavater
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The public seldom forgive twice.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
~ Johann von Goethe
Ehre verloren, alles verloren." ("Honor lost, all lost.")
~ Johann Voss
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doubt can only be removed by action.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe