Suspicion Quotes - Page 10

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

  Samantha Bond

  Insecurity, Kicks

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• 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.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Thinking, Israel, Gaza Strip

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• As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

  Richard Whately

  Twilight, People, Tone

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• I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Knowledge, Science

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

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 4

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• Ambition and suspicion always go together.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Ambition, Together

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• Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a little while, the needs disappear. Likewise the striving. In the thoughts of man aloft, food and evil become mixed and sometimes reversed. This is the open door to wisdom. Aloft, the earth is ancient and man is young, regardless of his numbers, for there, aloft he may reaffirm his suspicions that he may not be so very much. This is the gateway to humility.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Humility, Men, Doors

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• My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.

  James Thurber

  Wall, Grandmother, Years

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• Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

  John Locke

  Moving, Together, Variables

  John Locke (1840*). “The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon”, p.132

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• Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Doubt, Mind

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.492

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• Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

  Francis Bacon

  Twilight, Bird, Doubt

  Francis Bacon (1720). “Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...”, p.178

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

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Attitude, Military, War

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• It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was that the distinction between truth and other motivations to believe tended to break down. Upon hearing a purported piece of information, the reaction was not 'Is this true?' but 'Why is this person saying this? - What machinations or manipulations are going on here?' The question of truth did not, as it were, have the social space in which it could breath.

  Simon Blackburn

  Motivation, Believe, Space

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• Something very unique about Germany is that once you are suspected or accused of having worked for the Stassi, it doesn't matter if you were 18-years-old, or a child, or an adult back then. Even if you deny it you won't get rid of this suspicion.

  Christian Schwochow

  Children, Unique, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

  William James

  Truth, Air, Objectivity

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin

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• Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Character, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Ancient, Truth Is

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Purity, Purification, Great Wisdom

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• Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Stuck

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.317

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• The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel.

  Ted Gup

  White, House, Healthy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Ready

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death and the Coronation of King Henry V.”, p.9

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• Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

  James Monroe

  War, Patriotic, Ill Will

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• A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

  Philip Sidney

  Wise, Thinking, Dull

  Sir Philip Sidney, James Hain Friswell (1867). “The Countess of Pembrokes' Arcadia ... With Notes and Introductory Essay by Hain Friswell, Etc”, p.126

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• You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.

  Wilhelm II

  Men, Insults You, Mad

  Remark to the Daily Telegraph. "The Growth of Nationalism: Germany and Italy 1815-1939". Book by Ronald Cameron, Charles Robertson, and Christine Henderson, 1992.

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• 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.

  Abraham Maslow

  World, Able, Lost

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