One Ought Quotes
64 One Ought quotes by 50 unique authors
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Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to…
— Aristotle
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One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence…
— George Hackenschmidt
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget…
— Seneca the Younger
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One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as…
— Albert Einstein
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For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of…
— Franz Kafka
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One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
— Virginia Woolf
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One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
— Socrates
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The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others.…
— Dwight L. Moody
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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by…
— Victor Hugo
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people…
— R. D. Laing
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
— John Locke
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
— Moliere
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
— Viggo Mortensen
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.
— Jerry Springer
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in…
— James A. Baldwin
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