Ought Always Quotes

21 quotes by 17 authors

• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges… — H.G. Wells
• Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I… — G. Campbell Morgan
• All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to… — David Hume
• There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that… — James Madison
• Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be… — James Madison
• there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the… — James Madison
• I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous… — Mark Twain
• There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that… — James Madison
• If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for,… — Alphonsus Liguori
• Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. — Frank Moore Colby
• The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once. — Demosthenes
• You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as… — Leonardo da Vinci
• Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. — Johann Gottfried Seume
• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of. — Viggo Mortensen
• I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even… — Bertrand Russell
• We ought always to try to influence others for good. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
• A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new. — Maud Hart Lovelace
• Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series… — Stanley Hauerwas

Who Wrote These Ought Always Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 21 Ought Always Quotes as follows:

• 4 Ought Always Quotes by James Madison
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Maud Hart Lovelace
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Stanley Hauerwas
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 Ought Always Quote by H.G. Wells
• 1 Ought Always Quote by G. Campbell Morgan
• 1 Ought Always Quote by David Hume
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Alphonsus Liguori
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Frank Moore Colby
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Demosthenes
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Leonardo da Vinci
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Johann Gottfried Seume
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Viggo Mortensen
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• 1 Ought Always Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley