Robert C. Solomon Quotes

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan

The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

It is important not to trust people too much.

I would rather betray others, than have others betray me

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

You can't stop trusting people just because of a few people.

If you can't trust family who can you trust?

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.