We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
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.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
I distrust anything that you don't hear.
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.