Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the…

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

Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs…

— Frank H. T. Rhodes

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the…

— Oliver Sacks

In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

— Kenneth Grant

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through…

— Charles Lindbergh

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

— Mark Twain

There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion…

— Noam Chomsky

What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the…

— Joseph Campbell

The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

...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

I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange…

— Marshall McLuhan

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

According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition…

— Virchand Gandhi

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It…

— Mark Twain

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for…

— Terry Eagleton