Coretta Scott King
Civil Rights Activist
"We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other."
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Mistrust
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms."
Michelangelo Antonioni
Film Director, Screenwriter
"I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known."
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed"
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
"One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief."
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"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."
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"Better mistrust undeserved than rash words."
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"Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust."
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"It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried."
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"Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture."
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"In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust."
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