Misguided Trust Quotes

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are coming upon you! If you were to judge as I do, you would not easily put your neck under a foreign yoke.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lorship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches.

I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you really cared for somebody, then that was it. It never occurred to me that people could lie about the way they felt about you. I had to learn that the hard way.

Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this sounds good. And, also like a lot of things politicians say, it isn't the least bit true. Many of the things government does, we don't choose. Many of the things we choose, government doesn't do. And whatever gets done, we're not the ones doing it. And those who are doing it often interpret their mandates selfishly.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd', and instead we got a German shepherd.

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.