Josh Billings Quotes

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

People are afraid of what they don't know.

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Even when it comes to notable events, we are in the dark.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.

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

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don't believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.

You see, we didn't know.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

The losing side is full of suspicion.