502 quotes
He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
Lao Tzu
Philosopher
The power to investigate is a great public trust.
Emanuel Celler
Politician · American · 1888 – 1981
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Writer · American · 1906 – 2001
It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.
Mike Pence
Politician · American · b. 1959
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Frank Crane
Clergyman · American
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison
President · American · 1751 – 1836
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Georges Duhamel
Novelist · French · 1884 – 1966
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
Peter Straub
Writer · American · b. 1943
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore
Poet · American · 1887 – 1972
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy
President · American · 1917 – 1963
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin
Statesman · English · 1867 – 1947
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
Terry Prachett
Author · English · b. 1948
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
Alan Greenspan
Economist · American · b. 1926
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald
Novelist · Scottish · 1824 – 1905
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn
Leader · English · 1644 – 1718
I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
Joss Whedon
Writer · American · b. 1964
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
Ken Thompson
Scientist · American · b. 1943
I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.
Gregory Corso
Poet · American · 1930 – 2001
Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.
Gustav Heinemann
Politician · German · 1899 – 1976
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson
Statesman · American · 1867 – 1950
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
Author · Greek
Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
Soldier · English · 1599 – 1658
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
Eric Sevareid
Journalist · American · 1912 – 1992
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas Sowell
Economist · American · b. 1930
We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Politician · Iranian · b. 1934
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan Watts
Philosopher · English · 1915 – 1973
It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.
Mo Rocca
Writer · American · b. 1969
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Steve Wozniak
Businessman · American · b. 1950
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet · American · 1803 – 1882
And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.
Dennis Muren
Artist · American · b. 1946
That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.
Richard Donner
Director · American · b. 1930
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry B. Adams
Historian · 1838 – 1918
The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
William Gurnall
Author · English
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
Edward Hopper
Artist · American · 1882 – 1967
Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.
Franz Grillparzer
Poet · Austrian · 1791 – 1872
One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.
Alberto Fujimori
Statesman · Peruvian · b. 1938
We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.
George Carey
Clergyman · English · b. 1935
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay
Statesman · American · 1777 – 1852
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher · French · 1905 – 1980
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
Michael Ondaatje
Author · Canadian · b. 1943
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
Aldrich Ames
Criminal · American · b. 1941
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Stephen King
Author · b. 1947
If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
Bill O'Reilly
Journalist · American · b. 1949
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
Stanislaw Lec
Poet · Polish · 1909 – 1996
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
Steve Ballmer
Businessman · American · b. 1956
Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
William P. Leahy
Educator · American