We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things that scare you the most about others; people who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others and so on and so forth. The most trusting of people, are not people who have never been betrayed or who have never felt pain; but the most trusting of people are those who in themselves do not find those things worthy of that blame. We see the world through the eyes of the condition of our own souls.
Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.
Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
