John Stuart Mill Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• ... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Real, Character, Doctrine

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.77, 谷月社

• Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

  John Stuart Mill

  Teaching, Exercise, Men

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867”, p.5

• The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

  John Stuart Mill

  Math, Feelings, Analysis

  Autobiography v (p. 116)

• A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wisdom, Government, People

  John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes”, p.516

• All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.

  John Stuart Mill

  Heart, Mind, May

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.258, Hackett Publishing

• I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, May, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill, John M. Robson (1965). “Collected Works: Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy : books 3-5 and appendices”

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