There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought. . . . Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.
There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful. . . We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.
Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.
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.
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.
Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
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.
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.
The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.