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Faculties Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- 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…
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
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- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does… — Frederic Bastiat
- The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties.… — Annie Besant
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. — Hugh Blair
- I want to have all of my faculties. — Jeff Bridges
- My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the… — Smedley Butler
- To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume
- Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he… — Jacob Bronowski
- Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer