Quotes About Trust

the only person worse than a liar is a hypocrite.

The fact is, you lied about hearing something because you didn't want the management to know you were drunk on duty. Isn't that right?

to authorize that personally.

it was never too late for the truth.

game theory, was called the "ultimatum game.

Finally, you'll tell the truth. I've read so many lies about the project I can hardly stand it. If this book can set the record straight—well, you'll be doing us a service. And I hope you won't mind if I turn on my own tape recorder while we talk. It isn't that I don't trust you. . .

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.

When you get out of the driver's seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver's seat, it can drive itself so much easier—it can flow in ways you never imagined. Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the "me" is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that insecurity, and all wisdom will be yours.

But Jesus never defines what someone must have faith in; he doesn't say "your faith in me has healed you." Rather, it's faith itself, the trust in things unseen that heals.

Sincere students find sincere teachers, and sincere teachers find sincere students. The two go together like a box and its lid. (p. 108)

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind." (p. 29)

Moreover, one should so respect a friend's presence that he dare not perform anything shameful or speak any unbecoming word, since any fault so reflects on a friend that the friend not only blushes and grieves inwardly but also reproaches himself with what he sees or hears, as if he had committed the sin himself.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

There is no disease I spit on more than treachery.

Too credulous a woman's longing flies And spreading swiftly, swiftly dies.

Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.