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298 Faculties quotes by 223 unique authors
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
— William Ralph Inge
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Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die…
— Margaret Drabble
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If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles…
— Orson Pratt
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Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us…
— John Stott
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The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an…
— Milton Friedman
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Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as hope and sadness,…
— John Cassian
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
— Zhuangzi
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Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.
— Christopher Hitchens
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And I take this opportunity to declare, that ...I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me,…
— James Otis
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.
— Jamie Whyte
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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn…
— Felix Schelling
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Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated…
— Hubertus Strughold
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I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men…
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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When all humanity works for humanity, when the life-business of men and women becomes one united partnership in all matters which concern each, when neither…
— Matilda Joslyn Gage
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If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness…
— Germaine Greer
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The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.
— Parley P. Pratt
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There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my…
— Harriet Martineau
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Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing…
— Joseph Butler
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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who…
— Frances Wright
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is…
— Mark Twain
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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