We Ought Quotes

549 We Ought quotes by 387 unique authors

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought — Abraham Lincoln
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all… — Richard E. Berendzen
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false… — Marquis de Sade
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to… — Plato
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far… — Plato
I believe deeply that we must find a new spirituality... in such a way that all people of good will could adhere to it... We… — Dalai Lama
The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of… — J. Budziszewski
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort… — Isaac Asimov
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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… — William James
Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a… — Al Gore
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
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand… — Henri Bergson
I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like… — Pat Robertson
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the… — P.G. Wodehouse
Life begins when we begin and each day we ought to be born again. — Sterling W Sill
When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge. — Jay Inslee
We ought to deal kindly with all, and to manifest those qualities which spring naturally from a heart tender and full of Christian charity; such… — St. Vincent
But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly… — Elisabeth Elliot
God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing… — George Muller
The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are. — Mark Epstein
What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We… — Unknown Author
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought… — George Washington

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