Habits Of Mind Quotes

31 Habits Of Mind quotes by 28 unique authors

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit… — H. L. Mencken
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and… — Joseph Addison
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a… — Jack Kornfield
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of mind… — George Boole
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for… — Bertrand Russell
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural… — John Dewey
Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other… — William Merritt Chase
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its… — Richard Ford
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. — Lord Acton
The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas. — James Webb Young
We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become. — Larry Brooks
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime:… — Rod Paige
Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present. — Joseph Grew
People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a… — Peter Forsyth
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas. — Alan Greenspan
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may… — Baruch Spinoza
We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we… — Charles Kingsley
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant… — Mark Lilla
You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static… — Tony Robbins
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends,… — Plutarch
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say… — Anne Bernays
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and… — C. Wright Mills
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. — Norman Vincent Peale

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