Faculty Quotes
611 quotes by 455 authors
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Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.
— Alexander Theroux
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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often…
— Alain de Botton
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from…
— John Muir
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I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had…
— Ally Carter
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All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their…
— John F. Kennedy
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Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
— Giacomo Puccini
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The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most…
— Marshall McLuhan
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According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and…
— William Whewell
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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology…
— Tony Benn
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions.…
— Stephen Covey
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give…
— Confucius
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as…
— Arnold Bennett
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For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time…
— Padma Subrahmanyam
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There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great…
— Charles Darwin
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What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish…
— Thomas Huxley
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of…
— Susan Sontag
Who Wrote These Faculty Quotes
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