"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them."

Habit, Mind

29

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them."

Exlpore more Habit quotes

"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Habit,

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Habit,

"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Habit, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Habit, Errors

"You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Habit, Addiction, Irony, Control, Health

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Habit, Reading, Ambition, Books, Procrastination

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Habit, Habits, Living

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Habit, Today, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Habit, Being

"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Habit, Repetition, Humor, Behavior, Awareness

Explore more quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

People

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

Effort

"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."

Imagination

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Virtue

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Man

"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

Dream

"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."

Nature

"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

Experience

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."

Time

"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."

People