A Quote by Alexander Pope

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
English - Poet
May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744

The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

Frances Wright

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Francis Bacon

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Rene Descartes

I tend to be cautious and rational, prone to keep everything under control.

Cai Guo-Qiang

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Helen Keller

There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.

Vinod Khosla

How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.

James Monroe

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Richard P. Feynman

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

Mignon McLaughlin

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

Baruch Spinoza

The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.

Robert Kenner

I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

William Makepeace Thackeray

My appreciation for cooking and healthy living came from watching my best friend die from liver cancer in 2008. I realized that I needed to make some big changes if I wanted to be around for a long time, so now I'm more cautious of how much I eat, what I'm eating, and how often.