Customary Practice

Famous quotes containing the words customary and/or practice:

“It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)