Quotes About Trust

if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

In Mary's view, Trumbull should have given Lincoln his votes, not the other way around. Lincoln was relieved that at least the senatorship had gone to the like-minded Trumbull, whom he congratulated and continued to befriend.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

In human relationships, those who do not love are rarely loved: those who will not be friends end up by having none. [p. 15 apud Thinking Strategically; on the "Intransigence strategy"]

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie about it. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it." Part of me is convinced that he actually believes that he will find it for you.

Since reason and love, the forces I had come to rely on in my life, have betrayed me, I am in unknown territory.

You're as sick as your secrets.

Substance abusers lie about everything, and usually do an awesome job of it." Stephen King once wrote. "It's the liar's disease." Nic once told me, quoting an AA platitude, "An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie about it. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it." Part of me is convinced that he actually believes that he will find it for you.

Parents are suckers.

Everything will be all right.

Of course I still want to believe him. I don't think it's simply that I am gullible, but I cannot fathom the implications of his behavior. When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.

I have a daughter who reminds me too much of what I used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. —KURT COBAIN, in his suicide note

It seems most of you believe that people are inherently good and to be trusted, that strangers are friends and friends brethren.

Let a man go to the bottom of what he is and believe in that.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Every priest who hears confessions is, by definition, an accessory to ever crime he hears about and does not report to the authorities.