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“But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.”

Knows Doubt Ought Humorous Scientist

Book:Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

“There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.”

Ifs Age Spirit Choices Doubt Masters Ought Pages No Doubt Volume Entry

Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

“Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. Other people's assertions cannot silence the howling dirge within us. It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.”

People Knows Self Silence Doubt Talent Ought Poison Assertion Self-doubt

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.”

Soul Clear Doubt Atheism Materials Ought Atheist Statements Not Perfect

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will just state what I think about them. They are illegal and ought to be suppressed. I would never countenance that which recognizes their legality.”

Ifs Thinking States Doubt Ought Labor Illegal Countenance Boycott Legality

Author:William Howard Taft

“My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.”

Years Has Beens Said Book Country Lasts Values Names Language Doubt Heard Ought Standards Tests England Endure Judged Autobiography Trustworthy Foreign Countries

Book:The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29:

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29:

“We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.”

Knows May Soul God Universe Three Father Doubt Plans Mystery Divine Ought Solutions All Things Sublime Compensation God Is Love Three Words Great Father

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.”

Knows May Self Wisdom Doubt Fool Ought Prove Obstacles Heroic Heroism Truest Greatest Obstacles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.”

Giving Doe Reason Philosophy Science Simple Doubt Students Ought Capacity Fancy Plausible

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Source: VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…

“You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?”

Men May Able Doubt Poet Ought Difficulty Profound Solve Treasure Great Men Word Of God Verses Renowned

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”

Ifs Men Way May War Use Running Law Fall Doubt Danger Willing Arms Ought Battle My Friends Difficulty Faster Knees No Doubt Avoiding Escaping Unrighteousness Avoiding Death

Author:Socrates

“Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be.”

Thinking Knows Should Jobs Law Opinion Doubt Ought Court Supreme Supreme Court Personal Opinions

Author:Chuck Grassley