Faculty Quotes

611 quotes by 455 authors

As you train your mind, shockingly it brings you prosperity as well as the faculty to maintain it. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences… — Aristotle
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and… — Porphyry
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. — William James
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason. — Plotinus
Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a… — Maria von Trapp
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which… — Charles Darwin
O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in… — Robin Winks
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. — William Ralph Inge
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . .… — Louis D. Brandeis
On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this… — Adolf Hitler
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. — Herbert Spencer
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison
Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art. — George Perkins Marsh
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve… — John Stuart Mill
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. — William Wordsworth
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we… — Bertrand Russell
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the… — Thomas Jefferson

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