Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
Trust, like love, is a word that has great power Everybody deserves their own space, in their own time. You are even entitled to keep secrets. But it is not secrets that destroys things, suspicion does. For it may take many years to build trust, sometimes. . all it takes is suspicion, you don't even need proof to destroy trust. So, if you say you can trust someone, you're admitting to something that is even greater than love. Trust, like love, is a word that has great power.
As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.
The losing side is full of suspicion.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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.
Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive outlook in order to attract a potential boyfriend, but you are also advised to Google him.
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.
What is art?. . . From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art.
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.
If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion.
Suspicion is most often useless pain.
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.
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?'