Best Faculties Qoutes
298 Faculties quotes by 223 unique authors
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops…
— Andre Breton
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Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as…
— Charlotte Bronte
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.
— Emily Bronte
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Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate…
— Adolf Hitler
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What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part…
— Joseph Campbell
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When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of…
— Marcel Proust
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What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state…
— Alexandre Dumas
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It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that…
— Stephen Fry
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Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties…
— Ernst Junger
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The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for…
— Hannah Arendt
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One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they…
— Arnold Bennett
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Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into…
— Stefan Zweig
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We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External…
— Alexandre Dumas
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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything…
— John Stuart Mill
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I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human…
— John Gresham Machen
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An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed…
— Napoleon Hill
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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,'…
— Oliver Sacks
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Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that…
— Timothy Keller
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