When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think… — David Cerone Copy Share Image
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated;… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning,… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
