Other related topics at: All In Your Mind 890. Caution; Projection; Suspicion; Trust "Whoever ... is overrun with suspicion, and detects artifice and stratagem in every proposal, must either have learned by experience or observation the wickedness of mankind, and been taught to avoid fraud by having often suffered or seen treachery; or he must derive his judgment from the consciousness of his own disposition, and impute to others the same inclinations which he feels predominant in himself." Johnson: Rambler #79 (December 18, 1750) Link