...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.' — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent. — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
As you know, in the 2000 campaign I articulated a point of view that we ought to have personal savings accounts for… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence,… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that… — Alex Toth Copy Share Image
The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city… — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
We Communists must be able to integrate ourselves with the masses in all things. If our Party members spend their whole lives… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because… — George Will Copy Share Image
Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image