Faculty Quotes

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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on… — Thomas Merton
I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not… — David Hilbert
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that… — Alexander Hamilton
On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals… — Dalai Lama
The fact is, if a person has not experienced the love of his or her soul, within one's self, there is no chance that that… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success. — Jacob Needleman
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony. — Charles Fletcher Dole
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those… — Daniel H. Pink
Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any… — Gerald May
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all… — Hugh Miller
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
Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times,… — Larry Dossey
I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the… — Bernadette Roberts
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
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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