Doubtful Quotes

187 Doubtful quotes by 154 unique authors

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant… — Carl Jung
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful.… — Mark Twain
In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what… — William Hazlitt
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. — Alexander Pope
I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal,… — Joseph Hall
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy — Joseph Joubert
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man. — Horace Greeley
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern… — Winston Churchill
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. — Robert Frost
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to… — Charles Dickens
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors. — John Stuart Mill
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they… — Maria Mitchell
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but… — Michel de Montaigne
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they… — Paracelsus
Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question. — Pat Robertson
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. — Queen Victoria
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him,… — Mark Twain

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