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The wise are doubtful,' Socrates returned, 'and I should not be singular if I too doubted. — Edith Hamilton

Doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. — Barack Obama

Manifestation blossoms when we turn down or tune out doubtful noise. — T.F. Hodge

Avoid all doubtful ideas and put your mind into the realms of true belief. — Israelmore Ayivor

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

I have always felt doubtful about those people who try to get one to give up one's own bunkum and accept their debunkum instead. — Nanamoli Thera

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

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

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

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

way." The giant scratched his head and looked doubtful. — Mary Lasswell

If I am missed it will appear. I may be discovered by those who want to see me. I shall not be in any doubtful, or distant, or unapproachable region. — Jane Austen

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Laurence Housman

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. — Guy De Maupassant

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

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

We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation. — Hermann Hesse

And even then it would be doubtful. — Howard Harrison

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. — Ed Balls

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

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. — R.D. Laing

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

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. — John Stuart Mill

Good advice is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so little
effect ... — C. G. Jung

The fortune of war is always doubtful. — Seneca The Younger

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. — George William Curtis

The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful. — Ida Tarbell

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. — Cormac McCarthy

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. — Devon Monk

Pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination. — Virginia Woolf

In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all. — Albert Camus

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

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law? — Mahatma Gandhi

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty. — Raheel Farooq

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

A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians; a present coming to Christ alone can give us joy and comfort. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher

What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful. — Ted Chiang

It's doubtful we're the first creatures to love those we should not, and we surely won't be the last. — Deborah Harkness

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting. — Thomas Hardy

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. — Aesop

Doubtful heart weakens mind. — Toba Beta

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all. — John Calvin

It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket than Christopher Martin-Jenkins. — Jonathan Agnew

Of this his head was convinced, however doubtful his bowels. — Michael Flynn

In doubtful matters boldness is everything. — Publilius Syrus

You can combat doubts by reminding yourself of the moment you released faith for healing. — Paul Silway

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

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

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

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

[A]rt can't ever be programmatic ... it needs on the contrary to be complicating, subtle, questioning, doubtful and doubting. — Tony Leuzzi

What are our options? If I have the choice of being doubtful or being hopeful, I'm going to choose hopeful. It takes less work to be positive. — Chris Colfer

Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art. — William Shakespeare

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

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

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. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Naysayers are frightened of their own power. — T.F. Hodge

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

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

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. — Mark Twain

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

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

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. — Earl Warren

It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Saviour is, by His Spirit, still on earth; let this cheer us. He is ever in the midst of the fight, and therefore the battle is not doubtful. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In faith, unity, in doubtful matters, liberty, in all things charity. — Augustine Of Hippo

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for. — John Buchan

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

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

The monsters are gone."
"Really?" Doubtful.
"I killed the monsters. That's what fathers do. — Fiona Wallace

[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you. — Joseph Brodsky

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

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another. — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would — Richard Brautigan

Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another. — Charlotte Bronte

Doubts are necessary; they keep us on the right path — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity. — Abhijit Naskar

there?" "Doubtful. While — David Baldacci

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person. — Richard Wright

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

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

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. — Pliny The Elder

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

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. — Francis Quarles

The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. — Alexander Pope

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

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us! — John Cowper Powys

only doubtful truths need defense. — Alan W. Watts

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

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

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. — Francis Jeffrey