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[T]ruth is in its usual place, somewhere in the middle between the extremes.

Bernard Lewis The New Antisemitism (2006)

Mankind are not held together by lies. Trust is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported.

Frederick Douglass

Build a little fence of trust
Around to-day;
Fill the space with loving work,
And therein stay;
Look not through the sheltering bars
Upon to-morrow;
God will help thee bear what comes
Of joy or sorrow.

Mary Butts

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.

Jordan Peterson Beyond Order (2021)

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus

On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.

L. Ron Hubbard

Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.

Arthur C. Clarke The Fountains of Paradise (1979)

The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

Albert Schweitzer

One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.

Nayef Al-Rodhan Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)

Press bravely onward! — not in vain
Your generous trust in human kind;
The good which bloodshed could not gain
Your peaceful zeal shall find.

John Greenleaf Whittier

"Friendship and trust" were the foundation of the (current Israeli) government and only "friendship and trust" will keep it in power.

Yair Lapid

Trust is the lubricant that enables men to work together, and they've thrown a handful of corundum grit into ours.

S. M. Stirling

There is a distinction between belief in a set of propositions and a faith which enables us to put our trust in them.

Karen Armstrong A History of God (1993)

The first station of trust in God is that servant be between the hands of God exactly as the dead body is between the hands of the one who washes the dead.

Sahl al-Tustari The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

The government (of Kazakhstan) will not fall (due to the ongoing fuel price hike protests), but we want mutual trust and dialog rather than conflict.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (2022)

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn (1991)

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Alan Watts The Essence of Alan Watts (1977)

The prophets trusted no one. Trust had no part in the Cause.

Sheri S. Tepper Raising the Stones (1990)

We are now taking steps towards building trust ... which doesn't happen overnight.

Ahmad Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah Ahmad Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah (2022)

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