Ought Quotes

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

The more you are afflicted, the more you ought to rejoice, because in the fire of tribulation the soul will become pure gold, worthy to be placed and to shine in the heavenly palace.

What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

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.

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

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 others, without the tree.

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.

You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

Christians have a dual citizenship - on earth and in heaven - and our citizenship in heaven ought to make us better people here on earth.

So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

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.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray.

Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use.

We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

If you rely on God as He ought to be relied upon, He will provide you as He provides the birds; they go out empty and hungry in the morning and come back big bellied at eventide.