Faculty Quotes

611 quotes by 455 authors

I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for .… — Robert Green Ingersoll
While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the… — Robert Hugh Benson
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is… — Gertrude Bacon
I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance… — William O. Douglas
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and… — Charles Baudelaire
I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty. — Jan Hus
The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people… — Steven Pinker
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind — Mary Wollstonecraft
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. — Martin Luther
There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those… — Paracelsus
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you.… — John Lennon
The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is… — Zhuangzi
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct… — Zhuangzi
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to… — Baron d'Holbach
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. — Edward Albee
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be… — Nikola Tesla
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism,… — E F Schumacher
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice.… — Daniel Nathans

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