Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. — Alfred Kahn Copy Share Image
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational.… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I've been on a faculty in a university, and I felt it was incumbent on me to deal with the Bible not… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change… — Kenneth Chenault Copy Share Image
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory.… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way,… — James Mortimer Copy Share Image
He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the… — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should,… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse?… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think… — David Cerone Copy Share Image
Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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