Ought Quotes
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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
Aristotle -
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
William Penn
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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
Saint Augustine -
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant -
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
Barney Frank -
Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
Karl Rove -
There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.
Chris Matthews -
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
Robert Baden-Powell
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Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!
Francis Asbury -
Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.
Björn Ulvaeus ABBA -
Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.
Carson Cistulli -
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
Aristotle -
When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ
E. Stanley Jones -
One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
Virginia Woolf
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That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
D. A. Carson -
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
William Shakespeare -
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
Virginia Woolf -
Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.
Marlin Fitzwater -
Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
Octavia E. Butler -
He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
E. M. Forster
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
William Graham Sumner -
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
Demosthenes -
The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.
William Whewell -
The names of the plants ought to be stable certa, consequently they should be given to stable genera.
Carl Linnaeus