Faculty Quotes

611 quotes by 455 authors

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very… — Carl Sagan
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the… — Marcus Aurelius
Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what… — Marcus Aurelius
Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any… — Marcus Aurelius
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of… — Giuseppe Mazzini
When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul… — James Anthony Froude
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is… — Bill Vaughan
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. — Karl von Frisch
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human… — Erich Fromm
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. — Stephen Fry
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let… — William Congreve
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and… — Leonardo da Vinci
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? — Arthur Helps
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free… — Robert Henri

Who Wrote These Faculty Quotes

455 authors contributed a total of 611 Faculty Quotes, led by these top contributors: