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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance… — William O. Douglas
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you.… — John Lennon
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct… — Zhuangzi
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. — Edward Albee
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be… — Nikola Tesla
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism,… — E F Schumacher
The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining… — E F Schumacher
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed… — Thomas Huxley
Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears… — Confucius
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living… — James Lovelock
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative… — Samuel Johnson
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her. — John Stuart Mill
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting,… — Horace Mann
It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'. — Herbert Read
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant
The property a man has in his own industry, is violated, whenever he is forbidden the free exercise of his faculties or talents, except insomuch… — Jean-Baptiste Say
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new… — Samuel Johnson
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain… — Joseph Glanvill
I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy Spirit can and… — Unknown Author
The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand… — Isaac Barrow
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.… — James Madison
Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy… — William Penn
A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed… — Alfred Binet

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