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Doubtful Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of…
- Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.
- 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…
More Doubtful Quotes
- I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for… — Ed Balls
- A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know… — Aesop
- In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. — Mark Twain
- Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all. — John Calvin
- Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two… — Charles Caleb Colton
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson
- Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is… — Tryon Edwards
- The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the… — George Wald
- The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never… — Mark Twain
- In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. — Anne Baxter