Things Ought Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of… — Ed Cunningham
Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be. — Michael Josephson
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. — John Milton
We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory… — Russell Kirk
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and… — William Hazlitt
Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an… — Gregory Palamas
Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are. — Brad Warner
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. — Charles Caleb Colton
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain… — Herbert Simon
This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success. — Anne Frank
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth… — Dean Koontz
Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations… — Michael Josephson

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