Suspicion

Famous quotes containing the word suspicion:

“My own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
—J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)

“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)

“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.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)