Ought Quotes

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As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it. — Benjamin Disraeli
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… — David Hume
I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought… — George W. Bush
The word heretic ought to be a term of honour... — Charles Bradlaugh
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. — Mignon McLaughlin
Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of… — Ed Cunningham
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime,… — Tommy Douglas
We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we… — Pema Chodron
The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth,… — Lewis Carroll
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. — H.G. Wells
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections — Joseph Addison
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do… — Barbra Streisand
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms… — John Owen
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that… — Charles Darwin
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.… — Isaac Newton
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. — Carl Linnaeus
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to… — William Whewell
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. — Tim Berners-Lee
There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that… — Robert A. Heinlein

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