Suspicion Quotes

In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.

Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

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

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of your subject.

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

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.

My suspicion is that we're near a near-term low. The reality is the majority of the selling short-term is over with - the market doesn't want to go down.

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

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

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

The losing side is full of suspicion.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

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.

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.

I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.