We Ought Quotes

549 We Ought quotes by 387 unique authors

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so… — Jerry Brown
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows… — Gunter Grass
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we… — Johannes Kepler
We ought to feel in our hearts that God is our Father, and that while we make mistakes and are weak yet if we live… — Lorenzo Snow
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is… — Seneca the Younger
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion,… — Charles Kingsley
We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now.… — Kerry James Marshall
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we… — Gottfried Leibniz
Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and… — Dorotheus of Gaza
Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please… — Fulton J. Sheen
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it. — Wilfred Bion
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain. — Miguel de Cervantes
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal… — Toni Morrison
In everything we ought to look at the end. — Jean de La Fontaine
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his… — St. Catherine of Siena
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
It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things,… — Charles Caleb Colton
We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than… — Samuel Johnson
I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause.… — William Jennings Bryan
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may. — Mary Astell
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not. — Reinhold Niebuhr

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