“To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.” WorldFactsOpinionTheoryHabitCircumstancesBasesErrorsWideConclusionDataInvestigationUncertainIndispensableFramedOwingAdoptingDiffusion Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“It seems, in theory, that I should be able to control at least a few of my bad habits. The problem is that my habits make me depressed, and the depression makes me want to indulge my habits and so I do. There isn't any solution to this.” WantShouldProblemSeemsAbleTheoryHabitSolutionsIndulgeBad Habits Author:John S. Hall
“A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.” MindWarRealMatterStatesForceCommunityDifferencesOpinionModernCrimeTheoryHabitTaxesClaimsAbsolutesPropertyDemocratSizeCommunistMonopolyDisobedienceFascistsMaking Peace Book:A Preface to Morals Source: A Preface to Morals
“Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.” EarthPiecesTheoryHabitSillyFlyingGravitation Book:Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)
“The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.” MindHas BeensStatesPoliticalPurposeForceSocialTheoryHabitProveTaxesDoctorsClubsDuesSpheresRevenueLiving OnAnalogiesSocial ScienceHabits Of Mind Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter
“Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.” SpiritBornPracticeTheoryHabitInventionRoutine Author:Louis Pasteur
“I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.” WorldEyeWantedFeltMy OwnMinesTheoryHabitAuthorityContemporaryUrgesNew WorldContemporary LifeClassicism Book:Dangerous corner Source: Dangerous corner