Trust Yourself quotes

Trust Yourself

28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Alan Watts
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"

Epictetus
Epictetus Philosopher

"If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself."

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
Trust Yourself

"But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship."

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