Our Faculties Quotes

27 quotes by 24 authors

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. — Hugh Blair
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
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
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
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
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
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
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. — Harriet Martineau
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
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
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
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
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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