He Ought Quotes

121 He Ought quotes by 96 unique authors

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all… — Thomas Carlyle
If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until he is sure. Dear friend,… — Charles Spurgeon
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. — Charles Caleb Colton
The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do. — Ty Cobb
Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons… — James Henley Thornwell
My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be. — Erich Maria Remarque
I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength,… — Thomas More
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he… — Jean de la Bruyere
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For… — Walter Lippmann
The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. — Michel de Montaigne
The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be… — Benjamin Franklin
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he… — John Stuart Mill
If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up. — Robert Green Ingersoll
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been… — Carlos Castaneda
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. — Seneca the Younger
Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true… — Leonardo da Vinci
And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion — Harold B. Lee
The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is… — Saint Basil
In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to… — Harold B. Lee
A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using… — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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