Faculty Quotes · Page 9

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

— Peter Kropotkin

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

— Nadine Gordimer

There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.

— Bob Proctor

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

— John Owen

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.

— Anonymous

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him…

— Quintilian

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

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to…

— Henri Bergson

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind,…

— Marcus Aurelius

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and…

— Robert Henri

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the…

— C. S. Lewis

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ...…

— James Joseph Sylvester

Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their…

— Louis Menand

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and…

— Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely…

— Clare Boothe Luce

The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition.…

— Maimonides

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn…

— Oliver Burkeman

To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under…

— Henry Handel Richardson

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

— Joseph Addison

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

— Fernando Pessoa

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

— Gertrude Atherton

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

— Joseph Joubert

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

— Mark Twain

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

— David Bowie

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

— Aristotle

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

— Emily Bronte

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do…

— Anatole France

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.

— Emily Bronte

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out…

— Mark Twain

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

— Epictetus

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind

— Margaret Oliphant

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

— Samuel Butler

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

— Henry Ward Beecher