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“Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.”

Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus

“The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.”

Needs Feels Firsts Objects Greatness Habit Higher Circumstances Comfort Activity Perception Lows Luxury Indifference Palaces Banquets

Book:Society and solitude

Source: Society and solitude

“Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.”

Men Way Mind Reason Lying Clear Habit Perception Weak Competition Contrary Odds Bent Inclination

Author:George Berkeley

“At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night.”

Stills Night Darkness Clear Return Habit Perception Draws Shining Perceive Flash Lightning Veils Dense

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.”

Ifs Form Perspective Habit Perception Patterns Status Quo

Author:Marianne Williamson

“What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.”

Body Reality Habit Perception Aging Including Physical Body

Author:Deepak Chopra

“We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.”

“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness