Suspicion Quotes

• 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

  Friendship, Happiness, Enemy

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• Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

  C. S. Lewis

  Screwtape Letters, Suspects

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Real, Work, Writing

  Russell Baker (2011). “Growing Up”, p.157, RosettaBooks

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jealousy, Men, Helping

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.119, Library of America

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• Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

  Amelia Barr

  Distrust

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.90, Litres

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Doubt

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  May, Faults, Great Ones

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Evil, Interesting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Mind

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11

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• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

  Petrarch

  Friendship, Cancer, Cancer Survivor

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

  Alexandre Dumas

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Rain, Fall, Unjust

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Sight Unseen/The Confession”, p.140, Essential Library

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

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Mean, Soul

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Findings, Paid, Suspects

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.26, New York Review of Books

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• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

  B. C. Forbes

  Cheating, Deception, Cheated On

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

  Robert Burns

  Armor, Weight, Heavy

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• Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Mistrust

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Nathan der Weise", (pp. 771-772), 1922.

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• 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

  Happiness, Enemy, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.378

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• 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.

  Edmund Burke

  Lying, Justice, Abortion

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.230

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Buddhist, Freedom

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Suspicious

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.254

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Evil, Doubt

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Watches, Done

  "Orationes In Catilinam", I, 2, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 771-72,

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• 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

  Men, Doubt, Littles

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.348

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Brain, Answers

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