Faculty Quotes

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What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part… — Joseph Campbell
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said… — Steven Millhauser
... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder... — Jostein Gaarder
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of… — Marcel Proust
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state… — Alexandre Dumas
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that… — Stephen Fry
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties… — Ernst Junger
Soooo," Arriane said. "Now you've met Randy." "I thought his name was Cam." "We're not talking about him," Arriane said quickly. "I mean the she-man… — Lauren Kate
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibilityâ”€â”€of being unable to undo what one has doneâ”€â”€is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for… — Hannah Arendt
I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. — Emily Bronte
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they… — Arnold Bennett
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal… — Siri Hustvedt
Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God… — Frederic Bastiat
Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into… — Stefan Zweig
This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such… — Neal Stephenson
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection… — Philip Zimbardo
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External… — Alexandre Dumas
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything… — John Stuart Mill
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and… — Charlotte Bronte

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