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)

“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 (1844–1900)

“An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)