I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known,… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which… — Georg Prochaska 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
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
It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties. — William Matthews Copy Share Image
In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who… — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form… — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried… — Johannes Kepler 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
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties… — J. C. Kumarappa Copy Share Image
The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image