Famous Quotes

"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."

Thomas Sowell on Trust

More quotes about Trust

• "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

  William Shakespeare on Trust

• "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth."

  Bo Bennett on Trust

• "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

  Stephen King on Trust

• "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks."

  Isaac Watts on Trust

• "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

  Golda Meir on Trust

More quotes by Thomas Sowell

• "It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it."

• "The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."

• "Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism."

• "If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly."

• "Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality."