Faculty Quote by Susan Sontag

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the…

— Joseph Addison

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in…

— Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

— Oliver Goldsmith

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

— Baltasar Gracian

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

— Luc de Clapiers

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a…

— Thomas Carlyle

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Bourdieu's interpretation was that tastes were serving as strategic tools. While working-class tastes seemed mainly a default (serving at best to express group belongingness…

— Carl Wilson

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

— George Eliot