Quotes on Should

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.

Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.

How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?