The Best Quotes About Suspicion

Updated June 15, 2019

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A list of the best suspicion quotes and sayings, including the names of each speaker or author when available. This list is sorted by popularity, so only the most famous suspicion quotes are at the top. The authors of these historic suspicion quotes are displayed next to each quote, so if you see one you like be sure to check out other inspirational suspicion quotes from that same writer.

This list answers the questions, "What are the best quotes about suspicion?" and "What are inspirational suspicion quotes?"

This list includes notable suspicion quotes by various authors, writers, playwrights, speakers, politicians, athletes, poets, and more. Vote on your favorites so that the greatest suspicion quotes rise to the top, as the order of the list changes dynamically based on votes. Don't let your favorite suspicion sayings get to the bottom of the list.

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1
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
11 votes
2
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
7 votes
3
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer
9 votes
4
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. Forbes
6 votes
5
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Robert Burns
8 votes
6
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot
8 votes

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.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?