John Locke Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

  John Locke

  Practice, Conquer, Habit

• Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

  John Locke

  Art, Memories, Practice

  John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.37

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

  John Locke

  Men, Differences, Understanding

  John Locke (1824). “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”, p.264

• Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

  John Locke

  Needs, Reason, Habit

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