Top 279 Doubtful Quotes & Sayings

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

I'm always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you're trying to differentiate, there's going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you're not having doubt, then you're not pushing it hard enough, or you're not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

In doubtful matters boldness is everything.

Working as a model is high-speed, and my own work in every sense is super slow and doubtful.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

I didn't want to do music. I was very doubtful. I was like, 'Oh my God. No one wants to hear a teen mom rapper.'

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

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 in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

What we still haven't done is really learned and embraced our history. When we do that, we'll no longer be doubtful and fearful that we are weak and incomplete.

I am doubtful about reuniting with David Dhawan.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.

It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good paying investments for the company. In a Republican district I was a strong Republican; in a Democratic district I was Democratic, and in doubtful districts I was doubtful. In politics I was an Erie Railroad man all the time.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust. It is highly doubtful that Obama knows anything about the history of these ideas, and it is even more doubtful that he cares. A concern for truth is not the coin of the political realm.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.