Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the… — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
