Ought Quotes - Page 4

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

As a man is, so he sees.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Thought creates character.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall’ - Lynette McGregor

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.