Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise! — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It… — Padma Subrahmanyam Copy Share Image
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning.… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA. — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never… — Alfred Binet 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
