As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together… — Charles Fletcher Dole 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
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties.… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of… — George Boole 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
Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline,… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being. — Lydia M. Child 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
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
Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue. — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. — Edward Thorndike 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
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties. — George Sand Copy Share Image
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
