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“A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.”

Ifs Way Heart Running Understanding Lines Clear Meditation Habit Mouths Foolish Unclear

Author:Richard Mitchell

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.”

Mean Doe Feelings Action Individual Belief Understanding Views Quality Habit Taste Empathy Appreciation Tolerance Indifferent Affable

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.”

Humans Evil Understanding Views Moral Novel Judging Habit Morality Judgment Stupidity Absence Readiness Immorality Pernicious Moral Judgment

Author:Milan Kundera

“The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.”

Heart Body Form Individual Understanding Perfect Education Virtue Habit Exercise Independent

Book:Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

Source: Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

“Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.”

Mind Easy Understanding Knowledge Taken Trouble Habit Intelligence Laziness Idleness Constancy Cramps

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.”

Body Certain Understanding Habit Behavior Your Body Urgency Sense Of Urgency Good Behavior

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart”

Men Heart Understanding Animal Grief Sadness Serious Habit Reflection Misery Grieving

Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

“Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.”

“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.”

Heart Doe Light Understanding Principles Produce Habit Exercise Holy Fruit Affection Evident True Religion

Book:A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission

Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission

“The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.”

Men Doe Understanding Natural Differences Habit Arise Faculty

Book:Of human understanding. A defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of common-place-book

Source: Of human understanding. A defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of common-place-book

“Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.”

May Stills Belief Understanding Habit Expectations Relation

Author:David Hume

“In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.”

World Should Different Understanding Teaching Habit Characteristics Who We Are Primitive Different Peoples Geography Describing Sympathetic Geography And History

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Yes, God loves you this very day and always. He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses and bad habits. He loves you today with a full understanding of your struggles. He is aware that you reach up to Him in heartfelt and hopeful prayer. He knows of the times you have held onto the fading light and believed-even in the midst of growing darkness. He knows of your sufferings. He knows of your remorse for the times you have fallen short or failed. And still He loves you.”

“Spirit discernment is rare because it is expensive. It means a sensitive conscience, an instructed understanding through study of the Book of God. It means a passion for purity, for truth, for the right, for Christ Himself, and for living uncompromisingly true in the daily habit. All this lies back of a seeing spirit eye. And these things cost. Discernment is expensive.”

Mean Book Eye Spirit Lying Passion Understanding Christ Study Seeing Habit Cost Conscience Sensitive Purity Expensive Discernment Daily Habits

Author:S. D Gordon

“Knowledge is the understanding of what, how and why we need to do something. Skill is applying that knowledge in a practical situation. Attitude is the desire to transform our knowledge into skills and ultimately into habits.”

Needs Desire Understanding Attitude Situation Habit Skills Practicals

Book:The Disney Way:Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, Third Edition

Source: The Disney Way:Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, Third Edition

“Understanding and admitting that you have an issue is the first way to change. When you quit a toxic habit, you leave room for something beautiful to take its place.”

Beautiful Understanding Habit Quitting

Author:Susan Shapiro

“So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.”

People Way Giving Kind God Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Understanding Habit All Kinds Generosity

Author:Susan Sarandon

“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)