quotes about Faculty
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Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.
-- Alexander TherouxSource : Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
-- Anne Bronte -
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
-- Antonin Artaud -
But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.
-- Aristotle -
A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want
-- Bob Proctor -
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There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties
-- Charles Darwin -
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
-- Edward Albee -
much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.
-- Frederic Henry Hedge -
Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.
-- George Perkins MarshSource : George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.10, New York : C. Scribner
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
-- Germaine GreerSource : Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”
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The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.
-- Hans Selye -
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. . .
-- Harriet Martineau -
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
-- Henri Bergson -
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
-- Henri Bergson -
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
-- Henri Bergson -
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
-- Henri Bergson -
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
-- Hermann von HelmholtzSource : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.97, University of Chicago Press
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Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.
-- Jamie WhyteSource : Jamie Whyte (2004). “Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders”, p.11, McGraw Hill Professional
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I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.
-- Jan Hus -
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph AddisonSource : 'The Spectator' no. 494, 26 September 1712
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The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.
-- Joseph GlanvillSource : Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”
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... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...
-- Jostein Gaarder -
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In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
-- Koichi Tanaka -
Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
-- Lydia M. Child -
God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
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Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
-- Noah Webster -
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage
-- Ramana Maharshi -
The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.
-- Robert Bresson -
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
-- Stephen Fry -
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I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
-- Steven Pinker -
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
-- Tea Obreht -
If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.
-- Thomas Cogswell Upham -
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
-- Thomas de Quincey -
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No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.
-- Wallace D. Wattles -
One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
-- William Matthews -
We can pursue the Cartesian project without restricting ourselves to theology and a priori faculties. A better, broader perspective is properly sought if we pursue the project with reliance on science broadly and on our full span of epistemic competences, including the empirical as well as the a priori.
-- Ernest Sosa -
Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse -