Nikola Tesla

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

Inventor

Laura Fraser

I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

Scottish Actress

Kevin Wilson

My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.

American Writer

Kevin Bacon

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

American Actor

Rick Famuyiwa

I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.

Nigerian Director

Mohamed ElBaradei

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

Egyptian Scientist

David Mitchell

My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.

English Novelist

James Baldwin

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

American Novelist

James Lasdun

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

British Writer

Amitava Kumar

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

Indian Writer

Use 'distrustful' when someone's trust is less than usual or has decreased over time.

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