The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become. — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Starting something new requires a certain amount of motivation. What keeps you going is your habit of doing it” — habits doctor Copy Share Image
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give rest to the problems weighing you… — Germany Kent 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
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who… — Plutarch 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
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
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
“When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.”11 As individuals and… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Russia could be, in fact, it would have to be a different Russia, but it could be a splendid ally. I will… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is… — Kate Millett 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
“We had no compunction toward our enemies [the ants] and took to increasingly desperate and violent means of dealing with them. If… — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“One can only agree with the general argument that generating more interest in the scientific enterprise would be helpful in these regards.… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and establishment of facts, assuming that actual… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“you see it.” Gurdjieff, a great spiritual teacher who taught in Europe and America in the early decades of the twentieth century,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture,… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into… — C. Wright Mills 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
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
“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
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
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