Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted -… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I know how people are with their habits of mind... as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
“Advice to my younger self: 1 Start where you are with what you have 2 Try not to hurt other people 3… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“How to win in life: 1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow 5 don't let people… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful… — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Our daily habits – honorable and dishonorable, noble and ignoble, vital and vile – are revelatory. Our sense of self is fashioned… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Character modification requires active participation in challenging new experiences, but without reflection upon our encounters in life and the purposeful alteration in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“That a work of the imagination has to be “really” about some problem is, again, an heir of Socialist Realism. To write… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themselves alone, leads them to other habits… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“What was educationally significant and hard to measure has been replaced by what is educationally insignificant and easy to measure. So now… — Angela Provitera-McGlynn Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“Diversity… is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other… — William Chase Copy Share Image
I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious… — Joseph Grew Copy Share Image
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
