Faculty Quotes

611 quotes by 455 authors

The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining… — E F Schumacher
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed… — Thomas Huxley
Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears… — Confucius
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living… — James Lovelock
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President,… — Joshua Chamberlain
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative… — Samuel Johnson
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her. — John Stuart Mill
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting,… — Horace Mann
It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'. — Herbert Read
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage — Ramana Maharshi
The property a man has in his own industry, is violated, whenever he is forbidden the free exercise of his faculties or talents, except insomuch… — Jean-Baptiste Say
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that… — Annie Besant
The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind — Anagarika Govinda
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new… — Samuel Johnson
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and… — Giambattista Vico
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown… — Jeremy Bentham
While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution â€“ so one theory goes â€“ this faculty… — Thomas Ligotti
Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. — Henri Poincare

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