Ought Quotes - Page 33

• Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

  Herbert Simon

  People, World, Kind

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• Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Compassion, Effort

  William Ellery Channing (1849). “Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings”, p.68

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• I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Debtors, Occupation

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI”, p.15

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• You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

  Lord Hailsham

  Boredom, Boring, Ashamed

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• All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

  Adam Smith

  Secret, Kept Secrets, Register

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.755, Harriman House Limited

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• To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.

  Adam Smith

  Sacrifice, Law, Ideas

  Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, p.26

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• Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.

  John Locke

  Children, Ignorance, Curiosity

  John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

  John Locke

  Opinion, Persuasion, Certain Knowledge

  John Locke (1996). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.5, Hackett Publishing

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• How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.

  John Locke

  Pain, Thinking, Evil

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.52

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• Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Order, Cases

  Adam Smith (1778). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.390

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• The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.

  Henry Taylor

  Running, Philosophy, Men

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.1

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• If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

  Richard Cecil

  Evil, Speak, Feels

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1857). “Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character”, p.259

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• I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Luck, Be Careful, Careful

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• We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

  Hugh Blair

  Sports, Pain, Cuckoos

  Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18

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• A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

  Fritz Leiber

  Healthy, Coincidence, Scientist

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.

  James Hogg

  Fashion, Food, Doctors

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• He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

  Francis Bacon

  Advice

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.295

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• The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.

  Adam Smith

  Believe, Men, Wisdom And Experience

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.336, Courier Corporation

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• Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Home, Son

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• We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

  John Piper

  Powerful, Blessed, Names

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• There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.

  Edward Norton

  Interesting, Bags, Bottles

  "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories. You end up not caring about any of the people and I thought that would be the case in this film, and you had these big speeches for each character, you know, it's like "God that's how you'll have to cut that down in order to paste it all", to edit the movie and my representatives could say "no, you really you ought to check it out.

  Jeff Bridges

  Character, Caring, Cutting

  "Jeff Bridges Is Making a Porno in The Amateurs". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. December 6, 2007.

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• I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

  Jerry Springer

  Views, Ideas, People

  Interview with Brian Polk, tv.avclub.com. May 12, 2008.

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• I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Lines, Hoping For The Best, Screenwriting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Patience, Police, Taste

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.124, Oxford University Press

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