Faculty Quotes

611 quotes by 455 authors

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. — Francis Herbert Hedge
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. — John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen… — Daniel H. Hill
One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked… — Robert B. Laughlin
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. — Hermann von Helmholtz
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations. — Jacky Ickx
As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close… — Jon Porter
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her… — Kenneth G. Wilson
I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty. — Nancy Cartwright
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. — George Bancroft
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. — Hale White
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born… — Ralph W. Sockman
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled… — Karen Armstrong
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary… — Pope John Paul II
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. — Walter Bagehot
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way — William James
Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain — Patrick Rothfuss

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