Faculty Quotes

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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. — William James
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by… — William James
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an… — E. Stanley Jones
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. — Clark Kerr
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D. H. Lawrence
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than… — Audre Lorde
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or… — James Madison
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.… — James Madison
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as… — Maimonides
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit… — Maimonides
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. — Stephane Mallarme
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information. — Hilary Mantel
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. — Orison Swett Marden
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. — W. Somerset Maugham
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what… — Ashley Montagu
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one… — James Otis
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which… — Albert Pike
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties. — Steven Pinker
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual… — Steven Pinker

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