Ought Quotes - page 5

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. (Don DeLillo)
There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences. View quote
Fritz Leiber
Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse. View quote
David Brin
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress. View quote
Henry Fielding
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. View quote
Bill Watterson
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. View quote
Charles Kingsley
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. (Robert M. Pirsig)
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. View quote
David Hume
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. View quote
William Blake
One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go. View quote
Heinrich Böll
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. View quote
Henry Lawson
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. View quote
Vitruvius
The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations. View quote
Vitruvius
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman. (Vitruvius)
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, 'Tis mans perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. View quote
George Mason
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe