I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science.… — Hans Selye 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
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time. — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of… — Frank Van Dun Copy Share Image
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image