Faculty Quotes

What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

Reason is the most active human faculty.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.

I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.

You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

I want to have all of my faculties.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.

wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.