I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact,… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said:… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The property a man has in his own industry, is violated, whenever he is forbidden the free exercise of his faculties or… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of… — I. King Jordan Copy Share Image
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Natural Magick is taken to be nothing else, but the chief power of all the natural Sciences; which therefore they call the… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily… — John Locke Copy Share Image
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical… — Haldan Keffer Hartline Copy Share Image
[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart,… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us… — Thomas Carlyle 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
The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Lately I feel being political is also about the company I keep and the ideas I put forward. When I do a… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image