Eric Hoffer Quotes

I trust no one, not even myself.

I always have issues with trust.

I lack trust in others.

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

It's become hard for me to trust people and though I'm the type to go, 'everybody is born good,' you come to question that.

It's hard to trust people when your own friends seem to think poorly of you.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

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

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

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

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.

You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.

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

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

Trust not a new friend or an old enemy.

There is not a single human being that I trust!

As the trust deficit persists, a deeper rot takes hold: Attitudes and norms begin to change. When no one is trustworthy, it will be only fools who trust. The concept of fairness itself is eroded.

I couldn't really trust anyone. Not completely.