Quotes About Trust

Her garbage had lied to me.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Only take advice from people with lives you like.

Trust your intuitive heart. How often have you said to yourself, after the fact, "I knew I should have done that"? How often do you intuitively know something but allow yourself to think yourself out of it?

The truth is, we don't know what's going to happen—we just think we do. Often we make a big deal out of something. We blow up scenarios in our minds about all the terrible things that are going to happen. Most of the time we are wrong. If we keep our cool and stay open to possibilities, we can be reasonably certain that, eventually, all will be well. Remember: maybe so, maybe not.

Trust in your own instincts and wisdom, and not in the words and fears of experts.

As many men have observed, the wrong woman can ruin your life if you let her in it.

Most guys will walk into a marriage thinking... Well I just did what I was always told to do... and I said I do. And I was a stand up guy. But I don't understand why she was fucking her Boss.

fraud, by definition, requires deceit, something women are highly evolved at.

Under my tutelage you will be safe': the phrase is derived from 'me duce tutus eris' in Ovid's Ars Amatoria, with the literal meaning 'with me as a leader you will be safe'.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

Next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say.

An ESS is stable, not because it is particularly good for the individuals participating in it, but simply because it is immune to treachery from within.

As a child, my wife hated her school and wished she could leave. Years later, when she was in her twenties, she disclosed this unhappy fact to her parents, and her mother was aghast: 'But darling, why didn't you come to us and tell us?' Lalla's reply is my text for today: 'But I didn't know I could.

Money is a formal token of delayed reciprocal altruism.

Careful inference can be more reliable than 'actual observation', however strongly our intuition protests at admitting it.

Shouldn't you take greater care, when speaking in public, to let your yea be yea and nay be nay?

Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is valuable for survival: the analogue of steering by the moon for a moth. But the flip side of trusting obedience is slavish gullibility. The inevitable by-product is vulnerability to infection by mind viruses.

For all I know, entire scientific reputations may have been built on the work of students and colleagues! I don't know what can be done to combat this dishonesty.

religious faith has something of the same character as falling in love (and both have many of the attributes of being high on an addictive drug*

Richard E Simmons III

These days he relied on the increasingly fragile assumption that what he said was right, and what was right was what he said.

They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves.