Faculty Quotes

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. — Nadine Gordimer

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

I had the Irish faculty of seeing some gleam of humor in every darkness. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel De Montaigne

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

Memory becomes not a faculty but a coconspirator, a tool for constructing the self that we show the world. — David Carr

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. — J.G. Holland

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Speech is the faculty by which men conceal their thoughts. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.
For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ... — Margaret Oliphant

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. — George Akerlof

Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered." - R. W. Young — Ray Kurzweil

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

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature. — Thomas Jefferson

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe. — Charles Darwin

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. — Quintilian

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. — Andre Gide

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

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham

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

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that. — Thomas Carlyle

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts. — George D. Prentice

From what I saw the plurality of students and faculty had been educated exclusively in the tradition of writers like William Gaddis ... — Junot Diaz

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli. — Nikola Tesla

Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing. Let us prescribe for you. — Christopher Morley

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. — Manly P. Hall

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

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. — Hans Selye

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys. — Ellen Swallow Richards

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. — Herbert Spencer

Sometimes, Kate was downright astonished by how much the women in the faculty lounge sounded like the little girls nattering away in Room 4. It — Anne Tyler

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties. — William Matthews

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action. — James Joyce

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

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

The faculty of vision can vary from person to person. On the other hand, we can rely on what our reason tells us because that is the same for everyone — Jostein Gaarder

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

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. — Koichi Tanaka

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

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

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being. — Lydia M. Child

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

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

So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty. — Florence Scovel Shinn

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. — John Ciardi

In the Human Form..Man has been granted the faculty of 'discretion' and the power of 'discerning'..grows only through 'depths' of understanding Self!! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

imagination is the image-making faculty of the intellect that helps us discover, process, and creatively express coherent meaning. — Sarah Arthur

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

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties. — Henry David Thoreau

Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend? — Flannery O'Connor

Genius
the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. — Amos Bronson Alcott

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. — Joseph Addison

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. — Thomas De Quincey

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty. — Jan Hus

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA. — Andrea M. Ghez

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. — Henri Poincare

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

The artist plays freely on his faculty of cognition. — Jostein Gaarder

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it. — Malcolm Bradbury

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

Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary. — Pat Allen

Man is God by his faculty for thought. — Alphonse De Lamartine

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

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

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

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women. — Samuel Johnson

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty. — Frank Tallis

Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. — Samuel Butler

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. — John Forbes Nash Jr.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine

I wouldn't have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club. — Leonard Mlodinow

No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance — Douglas Adams

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. — Henri Bergson

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope. — Michel De Montaigne

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training. — Anatole France

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. — Charles Darwin

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced — Barbara W. Tuchman

PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. — Patrick Rothfuss

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. — Ada Lovelace

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination. — Madame De Stael

I think it's pretty well established that great schools are predicated on great faculty. That is not a Wisconsin market; that is a worldwide market. — John Morgridge

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

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

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure. — Charlotte Bronte

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

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. — Aristotle.

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. — Edward Thorndike

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies. — Koichi Tanaka

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women. — Mary Lascelles

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words. — Jules Verne

Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen. — Agatha Christie