Hilaire Belloc Quotes
Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
Belloc, Hilaire. More Beasts (for Worse Children). Edward Arnold, 1897, p. 43.
Any politician who is absolutely sure of anything he/she advocates has got to be ignorant of many of the facts and concepts about the subject. Certainty is an extreme form of hubris.
Few politicians in modern times have been so sure that they were not wrong about major policies and programs, and very few have actually been so wrong as history has shown him to be. See Otis Singetary’s great quotation on leaders and doubt -- {638385} .
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was a British-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford South from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship.
