There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Quotes
The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCGuard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BC