Ought Quotes - Page 23

Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were so fragile and parenting so difficult to learn, where would we all be as adults?

Sandra Scarr

Children, Parent, Experts

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We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

Brother Lawrence

Affair, Happens, Assistance

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Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.

Martin Luther

Christian, Men, Liberty

Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.75, Anchor

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Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.

Pope Innocent III

Christ, Subjection

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... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

Mary Barnett Gilson

Leadership, Respect, Self

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I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.

Thomas Huxley

Education, Responsibility, Learning

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When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.

Bernardino Ramazzini

Lying, Fate, Men

Bernardino Ramazzini (1983). “Diseases of workers”

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

Richard Dedekind

Proof

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Flu is easily transmitted, so if you are working with sick people - who are most at risk for getting seriously ill - you ought to be vaccinated. I am not really equipped to say whether it should be the law or not.

Michael Specter

Law, People, Sick

Source: www.newyorker.com

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If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

Billy Bob Thornton

Mean, Talking, People

Source: collider.com

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People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.

William J. Clinton

Taken, People, Needs

Source: www.foxnews.com

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Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. "I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was.

Stella Chess

School, People, Growth

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Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

C. S. Lewis

Book, Extravagance, Bills

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It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.

C. S. Lewis

Children, Reading, Silly

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

R. Kent Hughes

Christian, Attitude, Integrity

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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Believe, Home, Goal

"The Impact of Israel’s Internal Politics" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.

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mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

Rita Williams-Garcia

Art, Color, Perfection

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For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Stars, Sex

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.216

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The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Character, Universe

Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.183, Indiana University Press

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There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Voice, People, Should

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The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.

Boethius

Numbers, Secret, Acquisition

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Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

Isaac Barrow

Ideas, Use, Quacks

Isaac Barrow (1735). “Geometrical Lectures: Explaining the Generation, Nature and Properties of Curve Lines”, p.4

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We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.

Jay Leno

Jobs, Years, People

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In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.

John Tukey

World, Economics, Increase

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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.

John Stuart Mill

Strong, May, Opinion

John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.64

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