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Faculty Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
- All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
- 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…
- Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
- Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has…
- Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
- It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive,…
- In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more…
- The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and…
- Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
- Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to…
More Faculty Quotes
- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does… — Frederic Bastiat
- There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. — Henry Ward Beecher
- If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart… — Joseph Addison
- Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. — Henri Bergson
- Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized… — Henri Bergson
- The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties.… — Annie Besant
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. — Hugh Blair
- I want to have all of my faculties. — Jeff Bridges
- I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to… — William F. Buckley, Jr.