ought Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about ought.
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
- Simone Weil
“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
- David Ben-Gurion
“Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
- David Ben-Gurion
“It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.”
- James A. Michener
“A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.”
- Dwight L. Moody
“When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.”
- Hale White
“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”
- St. Jerome
“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.”
- Samuel Butler
“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower