David Hume Quotes

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Custom is second nature.

Where a bad custom has been in existence for any length of time, most people grow to regard it as part of the order of nature.

Custom is our nature …

The empire of custom is most mighty.

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

The command of custome is great.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

Custom is almost a second nature.

Custom does often reason overrule.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

The power of habit is very strong.

Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

Habit is stronger than reason.