Ought Quotes

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.

Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!

It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?

Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal offense, not just a civil one. I'm all for the criminalization of discrimination.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.