Best habit & instinct Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.”

Use Body Form Order Names Language Secret Generations Movement Habit Weapons Relation Method Instinct Jew Various Rely Secrecy Rely Upon Secret Society

Book:Belloc: A Biographical Anthology

Source: Belloc: A Biographical Anthology

“Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.”

Habit Overcoming Instinct

Book:The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education

Source: The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education

“Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.”

Reason Law Social Progress Depends Habit Instinct Guidance Remove Assurance Social Progress

Author:Emily Blackwell

“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.”

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights of one generation become the instincts of the next.”

Ideas Science Next Progress Generations Habit Tools Mathematics Instinct Insight Math New Ideas

Author:Jim Propp

“With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.”

“Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.”

Children Animal Compassion Habit Instinct Nasty Animal Compassion

Author:Dan Mathews

“The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.”

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Book:The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

“The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.”

Games Keys Habit Instinct Ice Opponents Good And Bad Exploits Bad Habits

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”

Needs Science Habit Instinct Appeals Useless Life Changing Time Machine Versatility

Book:The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”

Source: The Time Machine

“You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.”

Made Moments Sound Darkness Habit Instinct Assumption Guesswork Thought Police

Author:George Orwell

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