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“People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.”

People Thinking Greatness Judging Ought Fit Truth Is Capable Motive Sublime

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable. But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.”

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:

“Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their true potential. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being."”

People Ifs May Helping Realizing Levels Ought Messages Capable Negative Treats Expected Absorbing True Potential

Author:Daniel J. Siegel

“If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.”

Ifs Ought Capable Insult Insulted Insults You

Author:Juvenal

“We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.”

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Book:The Irony of American History

Source: The Irony of American History

“It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.”

Knows Should Wells Has Beens Said Two Government Know How Virtue Ought Citizens Capable Commanders Good Citizen Freeman Well Said

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organized, armed, and disciplined, and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms; and that all regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenceless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments in the community to be avoided.”

“No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.”

Men Should Country Government Common Ought Capable Training Ideals Should Have Scientist Independent Institutions University Pursuit Obligation Efficient Preservation Bureaucracy Attainment

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.”

People Government Form Nations Community Common Security Danger Ought Degrees Benefits Capable Safety Various Protection Forms Of Government Secured

Author:George Mason

“The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.”

Mean Might Evil Ought Safe Capable Institutions Affected Abandoned Incapable Masonry

Author:John Marshall

“To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.”

Knows Trying I Can Done Cases Knowing Identity Ought Capable Commitment Species Determine Valuable Who I Am Defined Horizon Identification

Book:Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

Source: Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

People Ifs Inspirational Helping Wisdom Hope Responsibility Ought Becoming Capable Treats Parenting

Author:Haim Ginott

“It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.”

Men Firsts Long Ideas Cases Hard Work Ought Capable Long Time Prejudice Currents New Ideas Best Work Older Man

Author:Francis Galton