Trust Quotes - Page 20

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.

It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

If we will put our trust in the Lord, he will help us through our difficulties, whatever they my be.

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

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