Trust, but verify.

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.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Seeing is not always believing.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.