“Due to brain plasticity, whatever actions we do and thoughts we have either solidify existing neuronal connections or create new ones. If… — Kevin Espiritu 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
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
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
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
The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to… — Joseph A. Schumpeter 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction. Much in the… — Cal Newport 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
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
Virtues are habits of mind, heart, and behavior. They develop through deliberate practice. Forming of a persons character lies in their own… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one… — Learned Hand 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
“And the reason everyone doesn’t use Listp is that programming languages are not merely technologies, but habits of mind as well, and… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
