It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far… — Robert South Copy Share Image
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues -… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known,… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Equally important for the promotion of excellence in the university is an emphasis on shared governance. The faculty needs to be involved… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion… — Gerald May 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
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Not many academics do labor education. Why not? The need is great. This is where the youth are so important. If faculty… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills.… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor… — Ali al-Naimi Copy Share Image
The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties… — J. C. Kumarappa Copy Share Image
The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building… — Michael Tanner Copy Share Image
The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
