“ 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. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 987
“ Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church. ”
- John Templeton- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself. ”
- Marguerite de Valois- Copy
- 727
“ The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. ”
- Russell Baker- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ”
- Nathalie Sarraute- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
- 1.4K
“ There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 865
“ Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. ”
- James Monroe- Copy
- 765
“ We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3.7K
“ All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. ”
- Jean Racine- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 2.2K
“ What you don't know doesn't hurt you; it's what you suspect that causes all the trouble. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 4K
“ Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. ”
- Alexandre Dumas- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Never put too much confidence in such as put no confidence in others; a man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself; as to the pure, all things are pure. ”
- Julius Charles Hare- Copy
- 426
“ Surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. ”
- Pierre Corneille- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike. ”
- Sue Grafton- Copy
- 756
“ The suspected man and the really guilty seem to differ but slightly. ”
- Ausonius- Copy
- 3.2K
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