#suspicion

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ↗

— E. B. White

#democracy #half #more #people #recurrent

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#only #own #suppose #suspicion #than

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#avoid #belief #cannot #dispense #ever

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it. ↗

— Mark Hamill

#george lucas #i #lucas #make #movies

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#artist #attributed #being #different #entire

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#could #lurking #rewarding #richest #simplified

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church. ↗

— John Templeton

#been #being #church #come #concept

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#any #course #created #each #had

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#hand #him #his #i #look

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place. ↗

— Jewel Kilcher

#lead #place #religions #same #sneaking