Suspicion Quotes

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.

A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon

To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as liberal democracy, free markets and Europe with suspicion.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.

Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

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

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

We must hold fast to the truths which we have already received; we must not look with suspicion upon any new light that God may send.

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.