Walter Bagehot Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.

  Walter Bagehot

  Nature, Real, Independent

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). “The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton”

• The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

  Walter Bagehot

  Sleep, Men, Intellectual

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “The Works of Walter Bagehot ...”

• War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

  Walter Bagehot

  Military, War, Race

  Walter Bagehot (1999). “Physics and Politics, Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, Ivan R Dee

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Public Opinion, Influence

  "The Character of Sir Robert Peel" (1856)

• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  Walter Bagehot

  Knowing, People, Mind

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.337

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