Our Faculties Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
— Hugh Blair
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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
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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
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It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain…
— Joseph Glanvill
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I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy Spirit can and…
— Roger Youderian
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The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand…
— Isaac Barrow
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Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
— Harriet Martineau
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That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
— Samuel Johnson
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Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.
— Charles Fletcher Dole
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Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any…
— Gerald May
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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,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
— William Ralph Inge
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Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die…
— Margaret Drabble
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing…
— Joseph Butler
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Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them…
— William Melmoth
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God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full…
— Mary Howitt
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Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of…
— Marcel Proust
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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who Wrote These Our Faculties Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Our Faculties Quotes as follows: