Ought Quotes - page 2

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. (Henrik Ibsen)
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. View quote
Vera Brittain
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. View quote
Jerome
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. View quote
Langston Hughes
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. View quote
Pythagoras
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. View quote
Charles Darwin
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. (James Madison)
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. View quote
Blaise Pascal
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 until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. View quote
George Boole
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion. View quote
Thomas Malthus
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. View quote
Edmund Burke
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. View quote
Edmund Burke
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. View quote
Joseph Addison
Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. it ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. View quote
Sam Houston
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. (Orson Scott Card)
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? View quote
Harriet Martineau
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. View quote
Anthony Trollope
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. View quote
Bertrand Russell