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“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

“He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.”

“the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.”

Past Behinds Mistake Cutting Doors Acceptance Wind Habit Invaluable Past Mistakes

Book:Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...

Source: Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...

“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.”

Should Children Stories Social Grows Mistake Growing Up Grace Wonderful Crazy Habit Dear Allowing Comment Spouse Unimportant Tuesday Wednesday Correcting Interrupting Social Graces

Author:Judith Martin

“As you begin this day, tell yourself, Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes! Everything that I have long dreamed of doing I will accomplish in this, my new life.”

Life Long Today Mistake Habit Accomplish This Day New Life Hypnosis Old Habits

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“I've sort of gotten into the habit of looking for the vulnerable guy, the guy who makes mistakes, the guy who can't figure things out all the time but keeps at it.”

Guy Mistake Figures Habit Vulnerable Making Mistakes

Author:LeBron James

“It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.”

Thinking Mind Light Faces Suffering Mistake Sadness Habit Creatures Harmony Rational Offering Deities Gloomy Sanctity Loveliness Habits Of Mind Sad Face

Author:Sydney, Lady Morgan

“No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded.”

Men Mind Long Doe Mistake Habit Infinite Regard Arise Fixed Contradiction Finite Habits Of Mind

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“In the beginning, yes I did go back... (but) I learned that if it's continued abusive, you just can't stay there. When guys are young, they make mistakes. Nobody's perfect, but, if they do it more than once, then it's definitely a habit”

Ifs Young Guy Perfect Mistake Habit Making Mistakes Abusive Nobody's Perfect

Author:Lil' Kim

“People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.”

People Law Natural Mistake Talking Habit Temporary Natural Law

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”

Thinking Mistake Habit Good Things Very Good Funny Marriage

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Literature Individual Sides Mistake Worst Habit Contact Assumption Encounters Unfortunate Both Sides First Contact

Author:David Brin

“The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.”

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.”

People Sometimes Mistake Habit Loyal

Book:Mohawk

Source: Mohawk