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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

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

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted. — Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life — Haile Selassie

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty. — Edward McKendree Bounds

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, even though this world is forever altering values. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. — David Eddings

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. — Cesare Pavese

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties. — Robert Henri

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

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child. — C.S. Lewis

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties. — Aristotle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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