Doubtful Quotes

187 Doubtful quotes by 154 unique authors

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly… — Rebecca West
People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things.....… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the… — James Russell Lowell
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and… — Mark Twain
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for… — Walt Whitman
A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful… — Paul Engle
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. — Anne Sullivan Macy
It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used… — Sakya Pandita
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and… — Jennifer Egan
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. — Seneca the Younger
If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in… — Walter J Chantry
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time… — Hermann von Helmholtz
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic… — Bertrand Russell

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