Faculty Quotes

611 quotes by 455 authors

Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no… — Jacob Bronowski
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to… — Herbert Spencer
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of… — John Hughlings Jackson
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no… — Joseph Conrad
Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being. — Lydia M. Child
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should… — Charles Ferguson
Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison… — Kelly Miller
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft
By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose… — Antonin Artaud
Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind — Thomas Jefferson
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help… — Erich Fromm
Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in India has ...… — Subhas Chandra Bose
No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will… — Hugh Leonard
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows… — Hans Selye
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion… — Albert Einstein
I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some… — Catherine Marshall
There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far… — Paul Broca
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with… — Henry Ward Beecher
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel de Montaigne

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