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“Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.”

Heaven Habit Silent Ancient Invention

Book:The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus

Source: The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus

“Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.”

Spirit Born Practice Theory Habit Invention Routine

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.”

Memories Wind Habit Illusion Invention Observation Crew Imaginative Distortion Bad Habits Misrepresentation

Book:Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing

Source: Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing

“Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.”

People House Change Media Television Habit Invention Plumbing Indoor Plumbing

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)