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Perhaps Quotes

Ideas offered gently, with room to be wrong.

These perhaps quotes hedge deliberately, treating truth and pleasure as things best approached with a question mark rather than a period. See our Admit quotes for a related tone of honesty.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Quotes by William S. Burroughs

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

Quotes by Walter Alston

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Quotes by Wallace Stevens

The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.

Quotes by Thomas Hoving

Aberration Quotes

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Quotes by Remy de Gourmont

Had I not done 'Baahubali,' perhaps 'Ghazi' wouldn't have happened.

Quotes by Rana Daggubati

The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.

Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

Quotes by Octavio Paz

Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.

Quotes by Michelle Dean

Admit Quotes

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

Quotes by Max von Sydow

The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.

Quotes by Martin Jacques

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

Quotes by Margaret Mead

My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.

Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Against Quotes

Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.

Quotes by Joe Kaeser

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Quotes by Jan Morris

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

Quotes by James Payn

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

Quotes by Isabelle Huppert

Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly.

Quotes by Herta Muller

Agreements Quotes

The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Quotes by H. W. Brands

Frequently Asked Questions

How is the word 'perhaps' used across these quotes?
It softens claims about truth, pleasure, and personality, framing each idea as likely rather than absolutely certain.
Is there a quote about repeating success?
Yes, one suggests that in baseball, the truest and hardest challenge might be repeating a previous achievement rather than achieving it once.
Do these quotes ever discuss personal change?
Yes, one predicts a specific personality trait will likely never change, adding 'perhaps' as a small note of humility to that claim.
Is pleasure discussed in a particular way here?
Yes, one quote suggests all pleasure might simply be a form of relief, offering a tentative rather than definitive view.
How does this topic relate to Admit quotes?
Hedged, honest claims connect naturally to our Admit quotes, which explore direct admissions on similar themes.

From baseball's toughest repeat feat to a personality that may never change, this set uses 'perhaps' to soften a claim without abandoning it. Pair it with our Against or Agreements quotes.