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)