Best habit & faculty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.”

Source: The Thinking Reed

“Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.”

Running Action Habit Walking Faculty

Book:The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments

Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments

“A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes

“The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.”

Men Doe Understanding Natural Differences Habit Arise Faculty

Book:Of human understanding. A defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of common-place-book

Source: Of human understanding. A defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of common-place-book

“The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.”

Men Doe Soul Events Fine Habit Exercise Spring Excellence Lifetime Active Faculty Fine Day

Author:Aristotle

“The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”

Mind Heart Rooms Divine Habit Charity Intellect Breathe Tolerance Senses Faculty Alas Cannibal Magnanimity Kindliness

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.”

Soul Habit Solitude Fairs Your Soul Companion Faculty Cherish

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”