We Ought Quotes

549 We Ought quotes by 387 unique authors

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with… — Aristotle
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to… — Charles Caleb Colton
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a… — Charles Caleb Colton
I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought… — George W. Bush
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. — Mignon McLaughlin
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime,… — Tommy Douglas
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we… — Pema Chodron
In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence — Teresa of Avila
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,… — Leigh Hunt
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than… — C.S. Lewis
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?… — Henri Poincare
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for… — Winston Churchill
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more… — Joseph Priestley
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,… — George Washington
If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has… — Steven Weinberg
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the… — Pablo Casals
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every… — Thomas Jefferson
Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind. — John Ehrlichman
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. — Augustus William Hare

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