Ought Never Quotes
28 quotes by 28 authors
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
— Jeremy Bentham
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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it…
— George Boole
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double…
— Winston Churchill
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
— William James
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
— H.G. Wells
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
— Alfred de Vigny
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One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
— Mortimer Adler
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The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who…
— Oswald Spengler
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God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of…
— Isaac Backus
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The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food…
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which…
— Oliver North
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We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.
— Pope Francis
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From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a…
— Pearl S. Buck
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The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child…
— Maria Montessori
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We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn,…
— Luc de Clapiers
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget…
— Seneca the Younger
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The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
— Francois Fenelon
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
— Jean de La Fontaine
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