Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going… — Charlie Munger 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
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
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have… — Henry Giroux 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
Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart. — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. — Karl von Frisch Copy Share Image
While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image