Suspicious Quotes
252 Suspicious quotes by 224 unique authors
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person, so…
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
— James Lileks
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I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.
— Bill Murray
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When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already…
— Alan Turing
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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine…
— Lillian Hellman
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
— Andy Rooney
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What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write…
— Jim Bishop
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The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received…
— Robertson Davies
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I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to…
— Neil Postman
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Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
— Nancy Pearcey
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
— Manuel Puig
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I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me.…
— Dominic West
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When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too…
— Edmund White
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I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.
— Paul Volcker
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