Quotes About Distrust

Conspiracy thinking is all about fear-based self-protection and our intolerance for uncertainty.

Conspiracy thinking is all about fear-based self-protection and our intolerance for uncertainty. When we depend on self-protecting narratives often enough, they become our default stories

Feltman defines trust as "choosing to risk making something you value vulnerable to another person's actions". He describes distrust as "what is important to me is not safe with this person in this situation (or any situation).

trust as "choosing to risk making something you value vulnerable to another person's actions," and he describes distrust as deciding that "what is important to me is not safe with this person in this situation (or any situation).

Charles Feltman. Feltman describes trust as "choosing to risk making something you value vulnerable to another person's actions," and he describes distrust as deciding that "what is important to me is not safe with this person in this situation (or any situation).

describes trust as "choosing to risk making something you value vulnerable to another person's actions," and he describes distrust as deciding that "what is important to me is not safe with this person in this situation (or any situation).

Besides, there was always the chance that Sir Frederick was being less than honest; his reputation, after all, was far from savoury.

The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.

The tendency in legalistic religion is to mistrust God, to mistrust others, and consequently, to mistrust ourselves.

He was known to be a gambler; he was suspected to be a thief.

You don't return people's smiles—it's perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

in a rash moment he decided to lie his way to the truth. If he wasn't mistaken, Ellen Magnusson had had very little experience with the police. She would assume that they searched for the truth by being honest themselves. She was the one who would lie, not the police.

The game had started. Everybody was assuring everybody else how reliable they were. In fact, nobody trusted anybody but themselves

Desconfío de la gente que dice que nunca tiene miedo. Creo que mienten. No tanto a mí como a sí mismos.

Both trust and gratitude require the courage to take risks because distrust and resentment, in their need to keep their claim on me, keep warning me how dangerous it is to let go of my careful calculations and guarded predictions.

Relate to people as a conqueror and they will hide their real nature from you. Violence is the brother and distrust the sister of this way of life.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again; and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor.

The Countess was very good company and not really the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said.

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It had been devilish awkward, as the young men say, to be found by Juliana in the dead of night examining the attachment of her bureau; and it had not been less so to have to believe for a good many hours after that it was highly probable I had killed her.

Takes him to her heart and yet thinks he cheats? Yes, said Kate—that's the way people are. What they think of their enemies, goodness knows, is bad enough; but I'm still more struck with what they think of their friends.

Heaven deliver me from my friends!