Quotes for All
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth. Edmund Burke
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
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 that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. Earl Warren
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
People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful. Friedrich Nietzsche
In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be … Read more
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability. Friedrich Engels
It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today. Friedrich August von Hayek
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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld