Trust:
1. “Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.”
From the Old Norse traust, confidence or firmness
Also:
“A firm belief or confidence in the honesty, integrity, reliability, justice of another person…”
I have already admitted to having trust issues; it comes from pretty primal betrayal.
Yet I do trust and have trusted. No, never an innocent trust; I always know that it is possible that I will be betrayed. But a volitional decision to trust those I let get that close to me. Accepting the danger freely but never ignoring it. Finding that confidence perhaps rather than an actual belief. I have never been good at being naïve. I guess by Webster’s that does count as trusting.
Charlie Brown and Lucy:
We know, we really know, that Lucy is always going to pull away the football at the last minute and Charlie is going to fall on his ass. And he should know by know, too, though he never learns. But should he have known the second time? Or was it worth giving her another chance? I suppose it depends on what he felt he had to gain or lose, and how convinced he was that she had changed.
Age and experience:
With a certain talent and sensitivity you can get fairly good at understanding people. If you are fair, you also might develop a certain amount of tolerance for error in others, since you have certainly had enough of your own. And I suppose, you might develop a decent emotional pain threshold.
Trust part 2
Synonyms: trust, faith, confidence, reliance, dependence
These nouns denote a feeling of certainty that a person or thing will not fail. Trust implies depth and assurance of feeling that is often based on inconclusive evidence: The mayor vowed to justify the trust the electorate had placed in him. Faith connotes unquestioning, often emotionally charged belief: “Often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true” (William James). Confidence, frequently implies stronger grounds for assurance: “Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity” (William Pitt). Reliance connotes a confident and trustful commitment to another: “What reliance could they place on the protection of a prince so recently their enemy?” (William Hickling Prescott). Dependence suggests reliance on another to whom one is often subordinate: “When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependence on him” (Richard Steele)”
ELIZA COOK:
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
FINLEY PETER DUNNE:
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
FRANK CRANE:
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
GEORGE MACDONALD:
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER:
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
SAMUEL JOHNSON:
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-06-05
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson
Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone that's smart and wholesome and worthy - and then just listen to what they say.
David Joyner
Trust the tale, not the teller.
David Knopfler
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
Stanislaw Lec
Those you trust the most can steal the most.
Lawrence Lief
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
Edna O'Brien
You can like somebody, you could even love somebody, but you have to work at trusting somebody and you've got to earn that trust.
Tony Orlando
Trust is the first step to love.
Munshi Premchand
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
לפני 18 שנים. 28 בינואר 2006 בשעה 19:08