The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as…

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind…

— Charles Darwin

Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction…

— Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals,…

— Charles Darwin

There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties

— Charles Darwin

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

— Charles Darwin

Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties. It sometimes…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children,…

— Joseph Joubert

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is…

— Wilkie Collins

Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the…

— Frederic Bastiat

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like…

— James Joseph Sylvester

The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes…

— Charles Darwin

I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled…

— Paul Smith