Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

Robert C. Solomon

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

Robert C. Solomon

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

Robert W. Service

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Rebecca West

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Umberto Eco

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Rhonda Byrne

Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith.

Samuel Johnson

Was ever poet so trusted before?

Samuel Johnson

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Samuel Johnson

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Roy Acuff

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Robert Jordan

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Robin McKinley

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

Robin McKinley

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

Samuel Johnson

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

Vittorio Alfieri

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Virgil

Trust the expert. -Experto credite

Will Smith

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

Warren Beatty

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

William Blake

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Werner Herzog

Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.

W. G. Sebald

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

Wayne Dyer

St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.

William Ralph Inge

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

William John Wills

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

William Morris

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

Saint Augustine

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.