Faculty Quotes

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To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. — Susan Sontag
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which… — Stephen Spender
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in… — Gustave Courbet
When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all… — James McCosh
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of… — Herbert Read
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them… — William Melmoth
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. — Robert Genn
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to… — Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same… — Brigham Young
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. — James Madison
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that,… — Saint Basil
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,… — Matthew Arnold
The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall… — Thomas Jefferson
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude. — William Beveridge
College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the… — H. L. Mencken
I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this and that, I… — Joe Fafard
Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that:… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold… — William Makepeace Thackeray
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full… — Mary Howitt

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