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“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none” William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It...” Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“After some other mistakes, I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect
“That the king is not to be trusted without being looked after, or in other words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Those who trust us educate us.” George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
“We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin–to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours–closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We...” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“No one who knew him ever believed him capable of a dishonorable act, and nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“My fellow Americans, I stand before you today, humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices born by our ancestors.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
“Waste not a day in vain digression: With resolute, courageous trust Seize every possible impression, And make it firmly your possession;” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be...” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine for food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value—to press my lips to what I love—to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? If so, then certainly I...” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than...” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“I find that I have four things to learn in my school life here, and indeed, in life—to think clearly without hurry or confusion, to love everybody sincerely, to act in everything with the highest motives, and to trust in dear God unhesitatingly.” Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
“God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust. We must confess, forsake, repudiate the self-life, and then reckon it crucified.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“Mirrors . . . are never to be trusted.” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2
“You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.” Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.” Jack London, White Fang
“to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“They're all right in a way—I'm very good friends with them—pass the time of day when we meet, and all that—but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then—well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to...” Veronica Roth, Insurgent
“Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic...” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.” Linus Torvalds
“even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself.” Epictetus, Enchiridion
“Do not be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who empties his glass empties his heart.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies, and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.” John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

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