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.

— Joseph Addison

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

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

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

— Robert Burns

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

— George Eliot

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

— B. C. Forbes

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Samuel Johnson

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

— Samuel Johnson

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.

— Ben Jonson

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

— Thomas Paine

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

— Francesco Petrarch

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

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

— Black American Saying

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

— Sir Philip Sidney

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Tennessee Williams