The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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.
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
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