CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together. — David Bowie 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
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been… — Germaine Greer 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
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies… — George Crabbe 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
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
