108 Quotes About Suspicion

I had better spend the day quietly, sleep in the afternoon perhaps, and then start again hunting for Hugo. I would have much preferred to look for Anna. But I had no idea now where to start looking. Also I wanted to lay quickly to rest the terrible suspicion that where I found Hugo now I would also find Anna. This idea didn't bear thinking about and so I didn't think about it.

Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our minds, soon develops itself and destroys our firmest beliefs.

When you know nothing about a creature," the monk ground out, his voice as hard as a rock slide, "expect it has come to kill you.

A spirit of suspicion is not the gift of discernment.

Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind!

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion.

Be polite, be courteous, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

What if we refused to be railroaded into the false choice between the critical and the uncritical? How might argument and interpretation proceed if critique were no longer our ubiquitous watchword and ever-vigilant watchdog? What other shapes of thought could we imagine? And how else might we venture to read, if we were not ordained to read suspiciously?