Action Quote by Immanuel Kant

“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty…

— Immanuel Kant

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

— Madame de Stael

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

— Joseph Priestley

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reason is the most active human faculty.

— Mary Baker Eddy

“Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.”

— Colin Wilson

“The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power…

— Thomas Parker Boyd

“The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of excellence of…

— Michael Dirda

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

— Thomas de Quincey

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent…

— Francois Rabelais

Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson