Faculty Quotes

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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals,… — Quintilian
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its… — Colin Powell
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to… — Jimmy Reid
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has… — Marquis de Sade
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in… — William Shakespeare
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. — Florence Scovel Shinn
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. — Edward Thorndike
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of… — Thornton Wilder
I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of… — Rainn Wilson
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in… — George Edward Woodberry
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the… — Virginia Woolf
My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions.… — Thomas Ligotti
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced — Barbara Tuchman
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be… — Mark Twain
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is… — Albert Camus
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical… — William Shakespeare
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more… — Jane Austen

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