Doubtful Quotes

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

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.