582 Ought Quotes for You to Enjoy

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? Immanuel Kant

Hope Three Ought Following Combine Know Practical Well Questions May Interests Reason Speculative

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. Jeremy Bentham

Government Conspiracy Ought Secrecy System Never Instrument Being Regular

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes

Thoughts Words Wild Ought Little

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice. John Paul Jones

Education Good Man Strong Practice Gentleman Sense Ought Be A Man Both Well Theory Tolerable Seaman Captain Connected Navy Good Education

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours. Kurt Vonnegut

Work Day Morning Better Achieve Ought Nine Would More Results No-One Studied Hours Well Metabolism Up Five Than Get Six Human Eight Businessmen Works Twelve Evening Four

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others. Moliere

Good Before Thinking Others Ought Oneself Look Deal Condemning Good Deal

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it. Peter Marshall

Trouble Ought Our Perfectly Know Most Well Want Us

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Rene Descartes

Power Ought Our Follow True Most Probable

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. Richard P. Feynman

Attitude Great Mind Value First Live Think Ought Must Vital Admit Uncertainty Student Know Great Value Answers Scientist Questions Different Which Acquire Realize Then Actually

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good. Saint Teresa of Avila

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. Sydney J. Harris

Government Democracy Ought System Only Powers Persists Whether Asking

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have. Sean O'Casey

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish! Ashwin Sanghi

Day Attention Span People Writing Try Drop Ought Seconds Scary More Tougher Writers Part Almost Attention Than Get Getting Human Maybe Goldfish Span Turn Average Us Page Why Humans

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to. B. C. Forbes

Truth Hurt Ought Unless

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee. Charles Spurgeon

First Ought Our Everything Failures Come How Lord Lord Jesus Still Came Just Thee Transgression Jesus

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

Ought Know Gods Whether

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. Elizabeth I

Death War Enemies Ought States Dangers Put Authors Monarchs Sworn

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thankful Gratitude Duty Ought None Expect Which Paid Right

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment. John Muir

Life Good Water Enjoy Life Independence Tea Enjoy Ought Easily Kind Tempered Delightful Particular Excursion Particular Kind Also Without Proved Trained Brave Any May Diet Just Bread Much Flesh Toil Full Ignored Nourishment Many Need

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her. Maria Montessori

Education Wisdom Best Nature World Every Aid Ought Recognize Direct Perfect Never He Part Because Fitted Transform Which Us Each Utilize Each One Her Things Adapted

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. Reinhold Niebuhr

Truth Together Club Think Other Ought Pretty Could Journalists Come Matched Preachers Close Which Them Cynicism Bring

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