Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"A hundred suspicions don't make a proof."
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Suspicion
74 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions."
Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true."
Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"Caesar's wife must be above suspicion."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"People who are in love suspect nothing or everything."
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"Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion"
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"Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage."
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"I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion."
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"Suspicion often creates what it suspects."
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"He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt."
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"Suspicion is most often useless pain."
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"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."
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"Suspicion is very often a useless pain."
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"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."
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"Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one."
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"As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion."
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"I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'"
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"Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred."
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"Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear."
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"Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs."
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"See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!"
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"Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes."
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"Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation."
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"That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare."
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"Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching."
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