Faculty Quotes

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War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all… — Smedley Butler
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of… — Augustus Hare
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.… — Mary Baker Eddy
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.… — Oscar Wilde
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value… — James Madison
From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results. — James Madison
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn… — Germaine Greer
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician… — Thomas Carlyle
If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is… — J. C. Kumarappa
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. — Man Ray
Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use… — John Andreas Widtsoe
I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members… — Annette Gordon-Reed
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people,… — Edward Abbey
Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding,… — Frederic Bastiat
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,… — Thomas Jefferson
No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature. — Thomas Jefferson

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