Faculty Quotes
611 quotes by 455 authors
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Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.
— Jamie Whyte
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The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
— Thomas de Quincey
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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other…
— Robert South
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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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Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now,…
— Chuck Mangione
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
— Andre Gide
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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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Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law…
— Calvin Trillin
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There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.
— John Owen
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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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...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she…
— Will Schwalbe
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Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our…
— Kelly Gallagher
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To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
— Gertrude Atherton
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If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or…
— Ibn Khaldun
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Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we…
— Hermann Weyl
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Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the…
— Ayn Rand
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All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave…
— Marshall McLuhan
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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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