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- Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind -- Thomas Jefferson
- It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. -- Joseph Glanvill
- Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. -- Stephen Fry
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. -- Hugh Blair
- Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. -- Clare Boothe Luce
- Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. -- Giacomo Puccini
- How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! -- Jules Verne
- Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. -- John Hagee
- Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. -- James Madison
- In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? -- Frederic Bastiat
- Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk. -- Patricia Marx
- All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. -- Maimonides
- The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties. -- Terry Eagleton
- To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
- The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. -- Colin Powell
- Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers. -- Derek Bok
- Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve. -- Henry Chadwick
- The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. -- William James
- What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. -- William Shakespeare
- I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is. -- James Otis
- Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. -- Virginia Woolf
- I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. -- Leonardo da Vinci
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. -- Francis Bacon
- To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. -- George Boole
- The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God. -- Annie Besant
- A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. -- Jimmy Reid
- I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them. -- Ernestine Rose
- I want to have all of my faculties. -- Jeff Bridges
- Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
- Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. -- Jamie Whyte
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties -- Hugh Blair
- What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties! -- Charles Baudelaire
- Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. -- George Orwell
- The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. -- James Madison
- The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties. -- Joseph Glanvill
- Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man -- Idries Shah
- Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them -- John Lubbock
- The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties. -- Parley P. Pratt
- Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? -- Arthur Helps
- A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties. -- Aristotle
- Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. -- Harriet Martineau
- Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. -- Immanuel Kant
- One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties. -- William Matthews
- Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. -- Frederic Henry Hedge
- American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. -- Edward Albee
- You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you. -- Bob Proctor
- Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties. -- Christopher Hitchens
- art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ... -- George Sand
- I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. -- Fernando Pessoa
- Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
- If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind. -- Zhuangzi
- There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties -- Charles Darwin
- Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. -- Francis Herbert Hedge
- Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
- People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. -- William Ralph Inge
- WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties. -- Henry David Thoreau
- How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties? -- Maria Edgeworth
- The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. -- Charles Darwin
- Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe. -- Charles Darwin
- The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties. -- Henry Flynt
- Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. -- Aime Martin
- Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. -- Robert Genn
- We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties. -- Joseph Cook
- Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies. -- Charles Caleb Colton
- We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise! -- Salvador Dali
- Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
- What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns! -- Susan B. Anthony
- I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties. -- Steven Pinker
- All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind. -- Henry Ward Beecher
- Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
- If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. -- Alvin Plantinga
- There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life. -- Bob Proctor
- Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties. -- Edward Norris Kirk
- I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind; as its rational and intuitive faculties.Capra -- Katherine Ramsland
- The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. -- J. G. Holland
- A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. -- James Madison
- You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. -- Emily Bronte
- It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. -- Aristotle
- The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits. -- John Locke
- The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time. -- Bill Brandt
- Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties! -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. -- William Cowper
- It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount. -- Henry David Thoreau
- My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. -- Mark Twain
- Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink. -- Mark Twain
- It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'. -- Herbert Read
- Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties. -- Louis D. Brandeis
- An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want -- Bob Proctor
- Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. -- Herbert Spencer
- In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. -- Stephane Mallarme
- Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this. -- Tariq Ramadan
- My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills. -- Arthur Koestler
- My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military. -- Smedley Butler
- The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. -- Joseph Addison
- 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
- Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results. -- James Madison
- 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
- 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
- What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. -- W. Somerset Maugham
- He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy. -- William Wordsworth
- Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
- Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success. -- Jacob Needleman
- Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony. -- Charles Fletcher Dole
- Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties. -- David Horowitz
- Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. -- John Hagee
- The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees. -- Henry Ward Beecher
- You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. -- Orison Swett Marden
- Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam. -- Wafa Sultan
- I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine. -- Rainn Wilson
- Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates. -- Derek Bok
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