Alexander Pope Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

  Alexander Pope

  Funny, Wise, Father

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.203

• Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Silence, Doubt, Silent

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.81

• Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

  Alexander Pope

  Doctors, Doubt, Like You

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Bathurst' (1733) l. 1

• To teach vain Wits that Science little known,
  T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Doubt, Littles

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Criticism”

• Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
  A being darkly wise and rudely great...
  He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;
  In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;
  In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
  Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Fear, Doubt

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.18

• The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Doubt, Sides

  Alexander Pope (1849). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the use of young people, by W.C. Macready”, p.77

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