I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation… — William Pinnock Copy Share Image
A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Everybody's complaining about all of Trump's cabinet members, how rich they are, that's horrible. I'd rather have that than a bunch of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
You should not say anything that you cannot put your totality behind. The total value of you is that whatever you say,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline,… — Madame de Stael 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
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels… — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force… — John Dryden 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
That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties.… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are, however, many challenges to Asian universities. First, academic freedom, in all senses, is much more critical to the success of… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this… — Joe Fafard 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
Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not… — Emily Lloyd Copy Share Image