Faculty Quotes · Page 4

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

— Anne Bronte

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its…

— Augustus Hare

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

— Michel de Montaigne

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

— Susan B. Anthony

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

— Samuel Butler

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty…

— Hannah Arendt

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

— Mark Twain

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when…

— Marshall McLuhan

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for…

— Lea Salonga

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined…

— Henry David Thoreau

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of…

— Neal Stephenson

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated…

— Nikola Tesla

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force…

— John Dryden

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never…

— Alfred Binet

[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

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and…

— David Hume

Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating…

— Marcus Aurelius

I ask you to consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is your true head and that you are a member of his…

— John Eudes

People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave…

— Rudolf Steiner

Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and…

— Francois-Noel Babeuf

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The…

— David Horowitz

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

— Karl von Frisch

Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.

— Epictetus

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

— Charles Darwin

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

— Maria Edgeworth

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

— Alexander Theroux

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

— Herbert Spencer

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

— Nadine Gordimer

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

— Emily Bronte

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

— Henry David Thoreau

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

— Andre Gide

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

— Quintilian

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

— Plotinus

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and…

— Martin Luther

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

— Charles Spurgeon