Faculty Quotes

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All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise. — Anne Bronte
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the… — Wilkie Collins
A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for… — Marcus Aurelius
All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical. — Marshall McLuhan
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the… — Michael Cunningham
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Past and future monopolize the poetâ€™s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops… — Andre Breton
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry… — John Adams
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his… — Milan Kundera
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know… — Epictetus
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as… — Charlotte Bronte
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and… — Rene Descartes
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. — Emily Bronte
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate… — Adolf Hitler
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or… — Jonathan Swift

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