Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself.… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without… — Juliette Drouet Copy Share Image
A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties;… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in… — David W. Oxtoby Copy Share Image
It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image