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Ought Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to…
- Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable…
- I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even…
- To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost…
- Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
- The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the…
- It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour,…
- Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on…
- 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…
- A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with…
- It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend…
More Ought Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — Francis Bacon