Ought Quotes

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Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to… — Alan Watts
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. — Bertrand Russell
We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some… — Winston Churchill
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what… — Arthur Bryant
To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's… — James Dickey
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it. — Woodrow Wilson
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly;… — E. M. Forster
Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's… — Henry Clay Trumbull
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet… — Charles Edward Montague
We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action. — Mahatma Gandhi
Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution. — Mark Twain
For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly,… — Herbert Spencer
By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast… — Bill Bryson
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust… — Seneca the Younger
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were. — Aristotle
I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am… — Socrates
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. — Oliver Goldsmith
Everyone who owns a home recognizes the need for fire insurance. We hope and pray that there will never be a fire. Nevertheless, we pay… — Gordon B. Hinckley
...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought… — Max Muller
But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and… — Margaret Spellings
In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made… — Martin Chemnitz
Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a… — Michael Faraday
But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis...… — James Clerk Maxwell
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought… — Ronald Reagan
Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used.… — Richard M. Weaver

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