I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are…

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

— Jacques Barzun

The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though…

— Alexander Hamilton

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

— Agnes Repplier

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

— G. H. Hardy

“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are. Stop for a second and look at…

— Brad Warner

Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

— Epictetus

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

— Albert Camus

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to…

— Herbert Simon

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“I believe we have this idea that bad things ought to be prevented from happening.”

— Linda Bender

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“There are, however, many things which we ought not to reject, yet for which we cannot feel indebted.”

— Anonymous

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

— Aristotle

“A fistula is a passage between two things that ought never to be joined and is, generally speaking, a bad thing.”

— Diana Gabaldon

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe