I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students… — Annette Gordon-Reed Copy Share Image
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we… — Joseph Glanvill 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
From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the… — George Will Copy Share Image
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be… — Martin Delany Copy Share Image
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side,… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will… — Felix Schelling Copy Share Image
I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty,… — C. Lloyd Morgan Copy Share Image
Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image