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It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for… — Alfred Binet
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state;… — Victor Cousin
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this,… — James Joseph Sylvester
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else… — John Donne
Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of… — Orison S. Marden
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable,… — Dudley Nichols
I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless… — William Mountford
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of… — Malcolm De Chazal
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due… — Virchand Gandhi
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck.… — Lewis Hyde
Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays… — John Crowe Ransom
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper… — David Hume
It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount. — Henry David Thoreau
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment… — Henry David Thoreau
One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring… — William Matthews
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish… — Noam Chomsky
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance… — Wilhelm Wundt
Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all… — Orison Swett Marden
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances… — John Stuart Mill
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with… — Unknown Author
I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also… — Rigoberta Menchu
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. — Harriet Martineau

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