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Habit Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the…
- In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked…
- In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new…
- Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different…
More Habit Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon