Doubtful Quotes

Doubtful Quote of the day

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

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

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 complimenting other people.

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

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

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

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

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

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

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

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

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

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

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

And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness

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.

In doubtful matters boldness is everything.

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection - only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation...

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

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

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

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

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

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

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

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.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

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

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

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

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

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

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

The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

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

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