Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

- Douglas Hurd

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

- George Steiner

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

- George R. R. Martin

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

- George Eliot

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

- Frank Pittman

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

- Franz Boas

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

- Frank Herbert

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.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

- Alfred North Whitehead

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

- Dalai Lama

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

- Brene Brown

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

- Bill Dedman

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

- Benjamin Franklin

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

- Ben Shapiro

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

- Alan Moore

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

- Alvin Toffler

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

- Alfred North Whitehead