Ought Quotes - Page 2

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.

Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then it follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.