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“[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!”

Humans Heart Hard Use Values Names Speak Language Friendship Knowing Doubt Friends Creatures Tasks Assuming Pity Surround Suspicion Maxims Use Of Language

Author:Sarah Fielding

“A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.”

Ifs Self Difficult Results Attitude Doubt Too Much Doors Easier Communicate Compassionate Suspicion Self Centered Narcissistic Wise Man Once Said Self Absorbed Egocentric Social Interaction

Author:Dalai Lama

“Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.”

Doubt Bird Twilight Suspicion Bats

Book:Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...

Source: Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...

“Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.”

Men Mind Doubt Tales Suspicion Whispering

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes

“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.”

Knows Men Should Littles Doubt Suspects Remedy Suspicion

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

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

Mind Believe Persons Evil Literature Doubt Atheism Suspicion Suspicious Formidable Lurking

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.”

Knows Pain Spirit Doubt Teacher Ultimate Suspicion Liberators

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.”

Doubt Ocean Suspicion

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There are many different kinds of doubt. When we doubt the future, we call it worry. When doubt other people we call is suspicion. When we doubt ourselves we call it inferiority. When we doubt God we call it unbelief. When we doubt what we hear on television we call it intelligence! When we doubt everything we call it cynicism or skepticism.”

People Kind Different Worry Doubt Television Different Kinds Cynicism Suspicion Skepticism Inferiority Unbelief

Author:Rick Warren

“It seems to me that all of us, in our own way, have our own personal lagos. We all have within us a voice that is whispering doubt, that is whispering suspicion, that's telling us there's something wrong, there's something missing, there's something that should be different. And we easily become hypnotized by that voice of doubt.”

Way Should Different Seems Voice Doubt Missing Suspicion Whispering

Author:Arjuna Ardagh