Quotes about Doubtful

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. Votes: 4

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. Votes: 4

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. Votes: 4

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity. Votes: 4

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question. Votes: 4

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. Votes: 4

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. Votes: 4

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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 must have the courage of men. Votes: 4

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 sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. Votes: 4

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. Votes: 4

Doubtful heart weakens mind. Votes: 3

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. Votes: 2

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical. Votes: 2

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations Votes: 2

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations. Votes: 2

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. Votes: 2

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. Votes: 2

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. Votes: 2

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked. Votes: 2

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother. Votes: 2

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 to seek it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses. Votes: 2

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today`s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses. Votes: 2

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. Votes: 2

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. Votes: 2

People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America. It's obviously a girl-power movie, but it's also about how scary girls are. Girls can be a nightmare. Votes: 2

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date. Votes: 2

I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents. Votes: 2

In doubtful matters boldness is everything. Votes: 0

The fortune of war is always doubtful. Votes: 0

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. Votes: 0

A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas. Votes: 0

When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more. Votes: 0

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity. Votes: 0

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. Votes: 0

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful. Votes: 0

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. Votes: 0

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful. Votes: 0

As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical. Votes: 0

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another. Votes: 0

Only your fearful and doubtful thoughts could defeat you in life. Votes: 0

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. Votes: 0

Quitting is only for those who are doubtful of their destiny. Votes: 0

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination. Votes: 0

Never be too confident or doubtful when everything is uncertain in life. Votes: 0

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy Votes: 0

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment? Votes: 0

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything. Votes: 0

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion Votes: 0

Avoid all doubtful ideas and put your mind into the realms of true belief. Votes: 0

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play. Votes: 0

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man. Votes: 0

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it. Votes: 0

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. Votes: 0

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. Votes: 0

It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything. Votes: 0

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. Votes: 0

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. Votes: 0

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain. Votes: 0

The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. Votes: 0

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. Votes: 0

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. Votes: 0

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.] Votes: 0

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful. Votes: 0

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.] Votes: 0

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression. Votes: 0

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others. Votes: 0

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Votes: 0

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas. Votes: 0

It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket than Christopher Martin-Jenkins. Votes: 0

We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are. Votes: 0

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. Votes: 0

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work. Votes: 0

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. Votes: 0

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them. Votes: 0

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. Votes: 0

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries. Votes: 0

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work Votes: 0

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him. Votes: 0

It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him. Votes: 0

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face. Votes: 0

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law? Votes: 0

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless, and heartless Zay. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing. Votes: 0

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. Votes: 0

The man that sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful Votes: 0

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all. Votes: 0

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer. Votes: 0

I am doubtful that there will be any sort of real coherence of Muslim societies into a single political system run by an elected or non-elected group of leaders. Votes: 0

Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover. Votes: 0

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. Votes: 0

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. Votes: 0

There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength. Votes: 0

Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I will see them in the light. Votes: 0

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all. Votes: 0

Men be so foolish as to have delight and pleasure in the doubtful glistering of a trifling little stone, which may behold any of the stars or else the sun itself." Votes: 0

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God." Votes: 0

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle. Votes: 0

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is. Votes: 0

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, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Votes: 0

False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words. Votes: 0

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 direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course. Votes: 0