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Ought Quotes by William James
- No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
- We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel…
- Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with…
- The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping…
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and…
- Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies…
- It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought…
- In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
- Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
- Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of…
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- Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton
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- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- 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
- 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
- Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is… — Francis Bacon