Faculty Quotes · Page 6

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

— Edward Thorndike

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

— Anonymous

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

— Harriet Martineau

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

— J. G. Holland

“Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as…

— Colin Wilson

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

— George Sand

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

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline,…

— Madame de Stael

Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains…

— Martin Luther

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels…

— Oscar W. Firkins

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful…

— Benjamin Disraeli

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it…

— Henry Giroux

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make…

— Anonymous

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects…

— John Ruskin

The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal…

— Edward Gibbon

Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving…

— Alexander Hamilton

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and…

— Joseph Joubert

Shared governance is often the critical element that is missing in Asian universities, no matter how talented the faculty may be. Either…

— Henry Rosovsky

I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having…

— Dave Ulrich

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and…

— John Adams

My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties…

— Thomas Ligotti

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

— Salvador Dali

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

— Aristotle

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

— John Locke

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

— Joseph Cook

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

— Christopher Hitchens

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

— Henry Ward Beecher

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very…

— Tea Obreht

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the…

— Thornton Wilder

Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

— Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

— Thomas Paine

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

— Aristotle

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

— Koichi Tanaka

I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh…

— Rainn Wilson

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

— Frederic Henry Hedge

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson