Suspicion

Famous quotes containing the word suspicion:

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

“Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity—both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

“The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”
—Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)