Weekend Words: Doubt
Given the checkered history of recent Michelangelo discoveries, Weekend Words proposes a round of the children's card game "I Doubt It."
“We have a Michelangelo,” is what Don Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, the Duke of Segorbe, Spain, said about “San Giovannino,” his 500-year-old sculpture, as reported by The New York Times. The artwork has been reassembled from 14 fragments, and some scholars, according to the news story, have definitively attributed it to Michelangelo. But given the checkered history of recent Michelangelo discoveries, Weekend Words proposes a round of the children’s card game “I Doubt It.”
“I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.”
—Richard Milhous Nixon
“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome —to be got over.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer
“Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
—Voltaire
“True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.”
—Akhenaton
“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.”
—William Blake
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”
—Bertrand Russell
