Quotes about Suspicion

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. Votes: 8

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. Votes: 8

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. Votes: 8

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. Votes: 8

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. Votes: 8

Suspicion follows close on mistrust. Votes: 6

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. Votes: 6

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. Votes: 6

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food. Votes: 6

The losing side is full of suspicion. Votes: 4

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. Votes: 4

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated. Votes: 4

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. Votes: 4

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. Votes: 4

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already. Votes: 4

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. Votes: 4

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. Votes: 4

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. Votes: 4

I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep. Votes: 4

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics. Votes: 4

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect. Votes: 4

Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion. Votes: 4

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness. Votes: 4

As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it. Votes: 4

Suspicion is most often useless pain. Votes: 3

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. Votes: 3

Suspicion often creates what it suspects. Votes: 3

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood. Votes: 3

Suspicion is very often a useless pain. Votes: 3

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation. Votes: 3

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred. Votes: 3

Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side. Votes: 3

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity. Votes: 3

Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things. Votes: 3

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness. Votes: 3

Suspicion is like a cankerworm that slowly eats away at relationships. Votes: 3

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. Votes: 3

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one. Votes: 3

Suspicion is the greatest enemy of love whether it is true or not. Votes: 3

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together. Votes: 3

Suspicion ruins the atmosphere of trust in a team and makes it ineffective Votes: 3

Gentleness stepped out of your smile; but:Suspicion cried out from your laughter. Votes: 3

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. Votes: 3

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people. Votes: 3

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust. Votes: 3

Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face. Votes: 3

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. Votes: 3

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal. Votes: 3

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. Votes: 3

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious.. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit. Votes: 3

Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities, I have mine. Votes: 3

Beware:Ignorance Protects itself.IgnorancePromotes suspicion.SuspicionEngenders fear.Fear quails,Irrational and blind,Or fear looms,Defiant and closed.Blind, closed,Suspicious, afraid,IgnoranceProtects itself,And protected,Ignorance grows. Votes: 3

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust... Votes: 3

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. Votes: 3

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. ... Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Votes: 3

Suspicion infused Alex's voice. Okay? That's it?I looked back at him and smiled. That's it. We disagree. It's done. We'll deal with whatever comes next.He stood up, brows lowered over squinty eyes. Did Lafitte ply you with brandy, or have the body snatchers been here? Votes: 3

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. Votes: 2

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. Votes: 2

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. Votes: 2

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. Votes: 2

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. Votes: 2

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. Votes: 2

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. Votes: 2

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. Votes: 2

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. Votes: 2

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. Votes: 2

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. Votes: 2

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. Votes: 2

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. Votes: 2

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry. Votes: 2

Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. Votes: 2

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. Votes: 2

Connection starves suspicion. Votes: 0

Public credit is suspicion asleep. Votes: 0

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion. Votes: 0

Ambition and suspicion always go together. Votes: 0

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion. Votes: 0

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion. Votes: 0

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion. Votes: 0

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it. Votes: 0

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority. Votes: 0

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor. Votes: 0

There's no end to suspicion once you get going. Votes: 0

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion? Votes: 0

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure. Votes: 0

I always had this secret suspicion that I was special. Votes: 0

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred. Votes: 0

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it. Votes: 0

Guilty conscience is the number one liar and the producer of suspicion. Votes: 0

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general. Votes: 0

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed ... Votes: 0

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled. Votes: 0

But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth! Votes: 0

In the bed of suspicion, no cushion can make a man to sleep Votes: 0

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. Votes: 0

I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band." Votes: 0

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good. Votes: 0

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers. Votes: 0

America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling. Votes: 0

Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal. Votes: 0

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion. Votes: 0

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion. Votes: 0

A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does! Votes: 0

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed. Votes: 0

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed. Votes: 0

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. Votes: 0

I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity. Votes: 0

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars. Votes: 0

Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion Votes: 0

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option. Votes: 0

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. Votes: 0

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. Votes: 0

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own. Votes: 0

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges. Votes: 0

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us. Votes: 0

Trust is a gossamer thread, and it takes only a breath of suspicion to break it. Votes: 0

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion. Votes: 0

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. Votes: 0

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place. Votes: 0

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past." Votes: 0

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives. Votes: 0

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much. Votes: 0

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past. Votes: 0

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion. Votes: 0

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. Votes: 0

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. Votes: 0

In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern. Votes: 0

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. Votes: 0

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent. Votes: 0

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket. Votes: 0

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly. Votes: 0

As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion. Votes: 0

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime. Votes: 0

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. Votes: 0

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion. Votes: 0

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized. Votes: 0

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion. Votes: 0

After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. Votes: 0

I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another. Votes: 0

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it. Votes: 0

Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.Lake Votes: 0

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion. Votes: 0

I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves. Votes: 0

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction. Votes: 0

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends. Votes: 0

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. Votes: 0

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing. Votes: 0

A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon Votes: 0

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. Votes: 0

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! Votes: 0

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. Votes: 0

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. Votes: 0

If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion. Votes: 0

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god Votes: 0

Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose. Votes: 0

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes. Votes: 0

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic. Votes: 0

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists. Votes: 0

It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy. Votes: 0

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. Votes: 0

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. Votes: 0

If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough. Votes: 0

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it. Votes: 0

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. Votes: 0

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people." Votes: 0

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms. Votes: 0

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient. Votes: 0

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people. Votes: 0

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon. Votes: 0

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’. Votes: 0

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. Votes: 0

I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being. Votes: 0

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality. Votes: 0

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers. Votes: 0

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions. Votes: 0

A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous Votes: 0

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion. Votes: 0

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. Votes: 0

CIf you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. Votes: 0

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. Votes: 0

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. Votes: 0

As disabled people, we are taught from a young age that those who are attracted to us are to be regarded with suspicion. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. Votes: 0

You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt. Votes: 0

A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water. Votes: 0

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks. Votes: 0

That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare. Votes: 0

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment. Votes: 0

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it. Votes: 0

Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind! Votes: 0

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?' Votes: 0

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire. Votes: 0

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. Votes: 0

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. Votes: 0

Deep inside, the majority of people had the sneaking suspicion that evil was more powerful than good and could be counteracted only by more evil. Votes: 0

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man. Votes: 0

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim. Votes: 0

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies. Votes: 0

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have. Votes: 0

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments. Votes: 0

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life. Votes: 0

The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion. Votes: 0

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion. Votes: 0

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark. Votes: 0

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity. Votes: 0

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. Votes: 0

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence. Votes: 0

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. Votes: 0

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth. Votes: 0

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us. Votes: 0

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life. Votes: 0

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does. Votes: 0

We are all today being monitored in advance and in criminal suspicion. And I think that's terrifying, and deeply illiberal as concept. And that's something that we should reject. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My suspicion is that his hard-core supporters, you know, when I interviewed some of them, they almost take kind of vicarious pride in Donald Trump`s ability to maneuver. Votes: 0

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Votes: 0

Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning. Votes: 0

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion! Votes: 0

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life. Votes: 0

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography. Votes: 0

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits. Votes: 0

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?] Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else. Votes: 0

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance. Votes: 0

Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow? Votes: 0

I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment. Votes: 0

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. Votes: 0

Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion....There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong. Votes: 0

When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our minds, soon develops itself and destroys our firmest beliefs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject. Votes: 0

Dr Johnson died in 1944. The suspicion exists that he was silenced...However two federal inspectors did examine his hospital record in the late 1950's. They concluded it was likely that he was poisoned. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing. Votes: 0

People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful. Votes: 0

Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed. Votes: 0

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den. Votes: 0

Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities? Votes: 0

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry. Votes: 0

[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. Votes: 0

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. Votes: 0

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what? Votes: 0

Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty. Votes: 0

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion. Votes: 0