Faculty Quotes

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Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may… — Jean Genet
I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and… — James Agee
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive. — Tea Obreht
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means… — John Calvin
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. — John Haggai
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried… — Claude M. Bristol
When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with… — Maximus the Confessor
Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious… — Robert Schumann
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of… — Derek Bok
What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty… — Susanna Moodie
The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and… — Johannes Kepler
The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing… — Lord David Cecil
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. — Hans Selye
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are… — Benjamin Haydon
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those… — Terry Eagleton
Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the… — William C. Kirby
You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust… — Erskine Bowles
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a… — Charles Frazier
Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can… — Michel Gondry
Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it… — Paramahansa Yogananda

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