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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

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

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

There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. — Francis Herbert Hedge

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

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

Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege. — Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal

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. — Charles Wagner

The will is the sovereign faculty and power of the soul; whatever principle acts in it and determines it, that hath the rule. Notwithstanding — John Owen

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence. — Upton Sinclair

I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty. — Nancy Cartwright

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.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful. — John Piper

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. — Man Ray

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. — Susan Sontag

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. — Lyman Abbott

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it — Aristotle.

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

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

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. — Benjamin Disraeli

Rhetoric then may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatever. — Aristotle.

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

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. — Aristotle.

I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not. — Kingsley Amis

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. — Florence Scovel Shinn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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