41 quotes found
"A person who trusts no one cannot be trusted."
"All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave."
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."
"Mankind are not held together by lies. Trust is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported."
"Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs."
"Dear, I trusted you As holy men trust God. You could do naught That was not pure and loving—though the deed Might pierce me unto death."
"All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe."
"If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’ if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained, if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor, so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage, then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high."
"In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just."
"As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
"Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee."
"As our fathers trusted humbly, teach us Lord to trust thee still."
"[T]ruth is in its usual place, somewhere in the middle between the extremes."
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."
"My body aches from mistakes betrayed by lust We lied to each other so much that in nothing we trust"
"That, in tracing the shade, I shall find out the sun, Trust to me!"
"Trust requires time and experience."
"Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust."
"I will say to Jehovah: “You are my refuge and my stronghold, My God in whom I trust.”"
"Do not put your trust in princes,"
"If strong trust is not knotted in the foundation of love, a home that could shield its inhabitants could not be built. And life could not be lived wet, whether it be in rain or tears."
"I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know; And so far will I trust thee."
"Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent."
"My life upon her faith!"
"I am sorry I must never trust thee more, But count the world a stranger for thy sake: The private wound is deepest."
"Edward Snowden: The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities that we've ever seen in history; now what they will argue is that they don't use this for nefarious purposes against American citizens, in some ways that's true, but the real problem is that they are using these capabilities to make us vulnerable to them and then saying while I have a gun pointed at your head I'm not gonna pull the trigger, trust me."
"To the trustworthy man belongs a divine voice. The barge on the river and the chariot on the road come to him."
"Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you."
"We have a saying in the movement that we don't trust anybody over 30."
"Trust in me in all you do Have the faith I have in you Love will see us through If only you trust in me Why don't you, you trust me"
"The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel."
"Build a little fence of trust Around to-day; Fill the space with loving work, And therein stay; Look not through the sheltering bars Upon to-morrow; God will help thee bear what comes Of joy or sorrow."
"Who would not rather trust and be deceived?"
"Trust in God, and keep your powder dry."
"A little trust that when we die We reap our sowing, and so—Good-bye."
"Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."
"I too Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove."
"Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed."
"O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!"
""Eyes to the blind" Thou art, O God! Earth I no longer see, Yet trustfully my spirit looks to thee."
"You may trust him in the dark."