Faculty Quotes

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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies. — Charles Caleb Colton
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put… — James Boswell
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the… — David Hume
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. — Clare Boothe Luce
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. — H C Bailey
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of… — Germaine Greer
We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but… — Swami Vivekananda
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does… — Andre Weil
I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. — Hans Hofmann
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. — William Cowper
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater. — Wallace D. Wattles
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages… — Wilhelm Wundt
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and… — George Boole
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible… — Thomas Hobbes
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest,… — George Polya

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