Ought Quotes · Page 109

The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our…

— William Whewell

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

— Michael T. Flynn

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

— John Denham

Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.

— George Herbert

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

— Ernest Rutherford

God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us…

— Michel de Montaigne

[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for…

— James Madison

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

— Sue Johanson

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

— Richard Cecil

Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state…

— Edmund Burke

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water;…

— Swami Vivekananda

... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and…

— Susan B. Anthony

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their…

— King James I

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.

— Eric Cantor

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense…

— Robert Benchley

I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now…

— Ann Coulter

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

— Greg Boyle

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

— B. C. Forbes

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

— Margaret Oliphant

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population…

— John Boyle O'Reilly