Ought Quotes - page 3

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. (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
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. View quote
Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. View quote
Francis Bacon
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. View quote
Jonathan Swift
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. View quote
H. G. Wells
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. View quote
Milton Friedman
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government. (Jeremy Bentham)
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. View quote
Ogden Nash
Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined! View quote
Samuel Goldwyn
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. View quote
Boris Vian
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. View quote
Alfred Brendel
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. View quote
René Descartes
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? View quote
Immanuel Kant
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. View quote
John Locke
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. (Honoré de Balzac)
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
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. View quote
Vitruvius
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