Doubtless Quotes
119 quotes by 104 authors
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The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and…
— George Santayana
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The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most…
— Lucy Larcom
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be…
— Alfred de Vigny
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have…
— Patricia Briggs
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We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a…
— Alfred Stieglitz
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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to…
— Emily Greene Balch
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill…
— Adam Gopnik
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Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled…
— Paul Krugman
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Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.
— Mark Twain
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art -…
— Paul Cezanne
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The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.
— Vincent Massey
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LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!
— Emily Dickinson
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Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people.…
— Margaret Prescott Montague
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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
— Augustus Hare
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see…
— Lysander Spooner
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