Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions. — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey. — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof. — Richard Dedekind Copy Share Image
Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark… — Kenny Ausubel Copy Share Image
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. — William James Copy Share Image
Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and… — James Levine Copy Share Image
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in… — Robert James Graves Copy Share Image
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening.… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it.… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the… — William James Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms. — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
God ought to be given the choice portion of our wealth and not its dregs. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
