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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.

Alan Watts

Philosopher · English · 1915 – 1973

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.

Henry L. Stimson

Statesman · American · 1867 – 1950

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

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