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"Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality."
"Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?"
"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."
"Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust."
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."
"Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many."
"There is none deceived but he that trusts."
"The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise."
"Was ever poet so trusted before?"
"I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives."
"The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived."
"The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others."
"When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity."
"there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late"
"Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas."
"St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self."
"The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both."
"Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes"
"Trust the expert. -Experto credite"
