Parker Palmer Quotes

People always want to doubt you.

I always have doubts. I am weary of people.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's motives might be.

Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.

Hope and certainty are the enemies of peace.

The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.

What loneliness is more lonely than mistrust.

Many people are insecure of many people.

You can't trust people.

Wenger never had faith in me.

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.

I don't like people because I don't trust them.

While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.

As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.