Charles de Lint Quotes

I always have issues. I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker. I think trust is something that comes from the gut. I don't think it's anything specific. I don't think it's anything tangible.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

I am very suspicious of people.

I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

It is important not to trust people too much.

I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them

I don't really trust nobody.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

I'm not paranoid,I just don't trust people.

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.

I trust no one, not even myself.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

I lack trust in others.

I trust no one totally.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.