Sayings about Suspicion
Suspicion is a cognition of mistrust in which a person doubts the honesty of another person or believes another person to be guilty of some type of wrongdoing or crime, but without sure proof. ~ An excerpt from Wikipedia (Read more – External link)
Luck that lasts is always suspect. ~ Tibetan Proverb
It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to be deceived by them. ~ French Proverb
Consider the facts seven times before you suspect someone. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Lock your door rather than suspect your neighbor. ~ Lebanese Proverb
He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes. ~ Spanish Proverb
If you suspect a man, don’t employ him, and if you employ him, don’t suspect him. ~ Chinese Proverb
Gossips always suspect that others are talking about them. ~ Yoruba Proverb
He is always right who suspects that he is always wrong. ~ Spanish Proverbs
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. ~ Swedish Proverbs
Quotations about Suspicion
It is better to be victimized occasionally than to go through life filled with suspicion. ~ Elbert Hubbard
What you don’t know doesn’t hurt you; it’s what you suspect that causes all the trouble. ~ Evan Esar
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. ~ Francesco Petrarch
A person does not have to believe everything he hears. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. ~ Alexandre Dumas
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disingenuous merit. ~ Norman MacDonald
Surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. ~ Pierre Corneille
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw. ~ Gosho Aoyama
We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. ~ Jean Racine
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Few men are above suspicion; a great many are below it. ~ George D. Prenticeana
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
They that know how to suspect, without exposing or hurting themselves, till honesty comes to be more in fashion, can never suspect too much. ~ Aesop
Suspicion is creative in its nature. It can bring out and develop the very evils it conceives.~ John Daniel Barry
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and He that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. ~ Samuel Johnson
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. ~ B.C. Forbes
It is hardly possible to suspect another, without having in one’s self the seeds of the baseness the party is accused of. ~ King Stanislaus of Poland
It’s a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn’t jump to conclusions, but it’s always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike.~ Sue Grafton
Suspicion is most often useless pain. ~ Samuel Johnson
The virtue of a coward is suspicion. ~ George Herbert
Suspicion is a strange shadow, that every action of another will cast upon our minds. ~ BP. Hopkins
A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does! ~ Pawan Mishra
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. ~ J. C. Hare
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. ~ Robert Burns
Suspicion is a heavy armor, and with its own weight impedes more than it protects. ~ Lord Byron
Suspicion aint’ proof. ~ Ken Alstad
The suspected man and the really guilty seem to differ but slightly. ~ Ausonius
Suspicion is a virtue where a man holds his enemy in his bosom. ~ Thomas Lodge
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ~ Eric Hoffer
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. ~ Francis Bacon
Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things. ~ Publilius Syrus
All kinds of evil flourish in suspicion. It is a perpetual breeder of the qualities that instantly work for evil, including secrecy and resentment. ~ John Daniel Barry
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. ~ George Eliot
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. ~ Scott Dikkers
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ~ Nathalie Sarraute
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. ~ Hosea Ballou
Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food. ~ Austin O’Malley
When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult … then comes suspicion. ~ Peter David
Never put too much confidence in such as put no confidence in others; a man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself; as to the pure, all things are pure. ~ Julius Charles Hare
Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ~ Eric Hoffer
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil as it is for the bad to suspect good. ~ Cicero
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. ~ Thomas Paine
Doubt is good. It’s an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion. ~ Jasper Fforde
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it is a great one. ~ Madam De Steal