Habits Of Mind Quotes
31 Habits Of Mind quotes by 28 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
— John Dewey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
— Lord Acton
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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
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We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.
— Larry Brooks
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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
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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
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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
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
— Alan Greenspan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."
— G. H. Hardy
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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
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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
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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
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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