Faculty Quotes

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

As you train your mind, shockingly it brings you prosperity as well as the faculty to maintain it.

Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.

It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done nothing in that direction since.

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.