Faculty Quotes · Page 7

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

— Aime Martin

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

— Carl Hart

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.

— Edward Norris Kirk

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

— Henri Poincare

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

— Cesare Pavese

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

— Joseph Addison

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

— Aristotle

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and…

— Bill Vaughan

Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is…

— Zhuangzi

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant…

— Francois Rabelais

“I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence…

— Carl Sagan

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure,…

— Joseph Addison

There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by…

— Paul Broca

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which…

— Oliver Goldsmith

But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,…

— Stephen L. Carter

In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more…

— African Spir

To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth…

— Paul Smith

Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald…

— Seamus Heaney

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting…

— James Lovelock

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

— Aristotle

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of…

— Igor Stravinsky

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

— Charles Darwin

You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.

— Bob Proctor

The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.

— Parley P. Pratt

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

— Margaret Benson

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

— Wallace D. Wattles

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

— Robert M. Hutchins

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

— Russell M. Nelson

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

— William Cowper

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

— William Ernest Henley