Faculty Quotes

611 quotes by 455 authors

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
By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward… — Mark Foley
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and… — Henry James
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
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that… — Charles Dickens
Man is God by his faculty for thought. — Alphonse de Lamartine
There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area,… — Amar Bose
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
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of… — Michel de Montaigne
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
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear:… — William Hazlitt
He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that. — Thomas Carlyle
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn,… — Luc de Clapiers
The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building gives us the… — Michael Tanner
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. — William Ernest Henley
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior. — Saadi
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
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work.… — William McFee

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