Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy 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
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment. — Agnes Repplier 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
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
“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
“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
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 book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind… — Nicholas G. Carr 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
“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
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
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
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
The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Highly competitive athletes like Ginny Gilder have a gift for tolerating pain and ignoring adversity. They accept these things as the price… — Tori Murden 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
“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
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that… — Rod Paige Copy Share Image
