Robert C. Solomon Quotes

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.

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

The more you trust, the more you create trust..

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

We think that we all have to like each other before we trust each other and that necessarily is not the case.

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

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

You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.

I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.

I'm always open to meeting people, but I would be lying if I didn't say that my trust issues have changed because of 'Modern Family.'

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.