Quotes about 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."

Addison, Joseph on suspicion   

"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."

Bacon, Francis on suspicion   

"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."

Ballou, Hosea on suspicion   

"Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects."

Burns, Robert on suspicion   

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

Eliot, George on suspicion
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"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious."

Forbes, B. C. on suspicion
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"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."

Hoffer, Eric on suspicion   

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

Johnson, Samuel on suspicion   

"Suspicion is most often useless pain."

Johnson, Samuel on suspicion   

"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."

Jonson, Ben on suspicion   

"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society."

Paine, Thomas on suspicion   

"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."

Petrarch, Francesco on suspicion   

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

Sarraute, Nathalie on suspicion   

"If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going."

Saying, Black American on suspicion   

"Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves."

Sidney, Sir Philip on suspicion   

"We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected."

Thoreau, Henry David on suspicion   

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"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."

Williams, Tennessee on suspicion
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