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  1. A quotation from Josh Billings

    He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
     
    [He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness

  2. A quotation from Josh Billings

    He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
     
    [He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness

  3. A quotation from Josh Billings

    He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
     
    [He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness

  4. A quotation from Josh Billings

    He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
     
    [He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness

  5. A quotation from Josh Billings

    He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
     
    [He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness

  6. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82854…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #caution #cheating #chump #deception #defraud #distrust #dupe #fear #fool #fraud #lying #mistrust #pushover #sucker #trick #victim

  7. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82854…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #caution #cheating #chump #deception #defraud #distrust #dupe #fear #fool #fraud #lying #mistrust #pushover #sucker #trick #victim

  8. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82854…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #caution #cheating #chump #deception #defraud #distrust #dupe #fear #fool #fraud #lying #mistrust #pushover #sucker #trick #victim

  9. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82854…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #caution #cheating #chump #deception #defraud #distrust #dupe #fear #fool #fraud #lying #mistrust #pushover #sucker #trick #victim

  10. A quotation from James Randi

    The first thing a cult does is tell you everyone else is lying.

    James Randi (1928-2020) Canadian-American stage magician ("The Amazing Randi") and scientific skeptic. [b. Randall James Hamilton Zwinge]
    (Attributed)

    More about this quote: wist.info/randi-james/82442/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamesrandi #cult #divinetruth #mistrust #onetrueway #others #outsiders #truebelievers #trust #usvsthem

  11. A quotation from Montaigne

    Our understanding is conducted solely by means of the word: anyone who falsifies it betrays public society. It is the only tool by which we communicate our wishes and our thoughts; it is our soul’s interpreter: if we lack that, we can no longer hold together; we can no longer know each other. When words deceive us, it breaks all intercourse and loosens the bonds of our polity.
     
    [Nostre intelligence se conduisant par la seule voye de la parolle, celuy qui la faulse, trahit la societé publique. C’est le seul util, par le moyen duquel se communiquent noz volontez & noz pensees : c’est le truchement de nostre ame : s’il nous faut, nous ne nous tenons plus, nous ne nous entreconnoissons plus. S’il nous trompe, il rompt tout nostre commerce, & dissoult toutes les liaisons de nostre police.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Screech (1987)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #communication #deceit #deception #disunity #interrelationship #language #lying #mistrust #polity #prevarication #relationship #society #words

  12. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust — or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding and the confidence and the courage which flow from conviction.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
    Speech (1945-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fdr #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #confidence #conviction #courage #fear #foreignrelations #internationalaffairs #internationalrelations #mistrust #peace #principles #suspicion #understanding

  13. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 363 (1820)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #age #caution #gettingold #growingold #maturity #mistrust #overconfidence #rashness #selfconfidence #timidity #trust #youth