Habits Quote by Thomas Paine

“We are so preoccupied with our own point of view that most of the time or we are searching for reasons to convert others…

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Error in opinion has this peculiar advantage with it, that the foremost point of the contrary ground may at any time be reached by…

— Thomas Paine

“You will be surprised to find how much that has seemed hopelessly disagreeable possesses either an instructive or an amusing side." from "The Heart…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Our taste must always be, more or less, the victim of our limitations, but we should beware of glorying in it, and, above all,…

— Sir Walter Raleigh

“Think how practical, pleasant, and thrilling it would be if one could open one’s mouth, from time to time, and something other than sheer,…

— J.D. Salinger

“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.”

— Martin Heidegger

“[The]...feeling for what one should want, in contrast with actual desire, is stronger in the unthinking than in those sophisticated by education. It is…

— Frank H. Knight

“...Abhorring all whom I dislike, Adoring who my fancy strike; In forming judgements never long, And for the most part judging wrong...”

— Matthew Lewis

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new…

— Samuel Johnson

“What could put comparisons, and envyings, and heart-burnings into their heads, so filling them either with conceit or melancholy misgivings? As if there was…

— Mrs. Alfred Gatty

“The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything…

— Martin Luther

“Those who, having opinions which they hold to be immensely important, and the contraries to be prodigiously hurtful, have any deep regard for the…

— Christopher Hitchens