Faculty Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Faculty Goodness Men Should
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end. — Jacob Viner Copy Share Image
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. — Junius Copy Share Image
I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor — Kenneth Grant Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image