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“It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...”

Reason Habit Curious Reasoning

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.”

People Way Enough Force Heaven Knowing Fool Habit Reasoning Thoughtlessness

Author:Laurence Sterne

“To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.”

May Philosophy School Habit Observation Compare Reasoning Deficiency Combining

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.”

Wells May Art Made Memories Practice Painting Habit Musician Hearing Painter Settling Reasoning Thinker Instruction Strict Lectures Reflecting

Book:Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding

Source: Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding

“When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.”

Men Reason Belief Emotional Habit Conviction Reasoning Logical Intensity Favour

Book:Mysticism and Logic

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

Children Self Done Passion Evil Parent Subjects Crime Habit Prejudice Misery Parenting Tendencies Your Children Reasoning Patriotic Educate Self Control Abolish Crimes Of Passion

Author:Benjamin Franklin