Faculties Quotes

298 Faculties quotes by 223 unique authors

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. — William Cowper
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and… — George Boole
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible… — Thomas Hobbes
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest,… — George Polya
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
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which… — Thomas Jefferson
All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had… — Mikhail Bakunin
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when… — James Clerk Maxwell
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self… — Friedrich Nietzsche
But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in… — Unknown Author
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. — Alvin Plantinga
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from… — Henry David Thoreau
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences… — Aristotle
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and… — Porphyry
Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a… — Maria von Trapp
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which… — Charles Darwin
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . .… — Louis D. Brandeis
On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this… — Adolf Hitler
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve… — John Stuart Mill
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we… — Bertrand Russell
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees. — Henry Ward Beecher

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