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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
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
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 combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing. — Alexander Theroux
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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
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
Geniusthe 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
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
Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
— John Piper
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
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
As you train your mind, shockingly it brings you prosperity as well as the faculty to maintain it.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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
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
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
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
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
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 faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
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
So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
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
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
— Manly P. Hall
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[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
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
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
