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  • I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
  • After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. -- Karl von Frisch
  • Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. -- Ada Lovelace
  • Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. -- Clark Kerr
  • I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. -- Marquis de Sade
  • Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. -- Albert Pike
  • In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. -- Koichi Tanaka
  • The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies. -- Koichi Tanaka
  • I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. -- Karl von Frisch
  • Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing. -- Alexander Theroux
  • 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
  • We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living. -- William Hazlitt
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  • Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits. -- Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul. -- Aristotle
  • Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students. -- Daniel H. Hill
  • I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. -- Hans Selye
  • A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison
  • Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. -- William James
  • Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. -- Henri Bergson
  • Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. -- Henri Bergson
  • A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. -- John Ciardi
  • Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. -- William Ernest Henley
  • The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. -- Robert M. Hutchins
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. -- Joseph Addison
  • The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. -- Quintilian
  • Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. -- Chuck Mangione
  • The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community. -- Alex Ferguson
  • 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
  • Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe. -- Ted Cruz
  • We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost. -- Roy Romer
  • Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. -- Erich Fromm
  • Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.' -- Randy Pausch
  • There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring. -- Ashley Montagu
  • Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. -- Michel Gondry
  • There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain. -- Paul Broca
  • All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame. -- Anne Bronte
  • I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. -- Elena Kagan
  • One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business. -- Charles Frazier
  • Faith is a higher faculty than reason. -- H. C. Bailey
  • Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination. -- Madame de Stael
  • Reason is the most active human faculty. -- Mary Baker Eddy
  • Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Man is God by his faculty for thought. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. -- Edward Albee
  • The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action. -- James Joyce
  • Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art. -- George Perkins Marsh
  • Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. -- William Ralph Inge
  • Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts. -- George D. Prentice
  • Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced -- Barbara Tuchman
  • Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. -- George Santayana
  • What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties! -- Charles Baudelaire
  • Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding. -- David Whyte
  • I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty. -- Jan Hus
  • All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. -- Mary Shelley
  • Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. -- Frederic Henry Hedge
  • Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. -- Immanuel Kant
  • The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows. -- Robert Bresson
  • The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. -- William Wordsworth
  • Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects. -- Epictetus
  • Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being. -- Lydia M. Child
  • In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. -- Walter Bagehot
  • We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days. -- Winston Churchill
  • It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted. -- Noam Chomsky
  • My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. -- George Akerlof
  • Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers. -- Immanuel Kant
  • Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
  • ... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder... -- Jostein Gaarder
  • Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. -- Samuel Butler
  • Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. -- Noah Webster
  • when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings. -- Nadine Gordimer
  • The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. -- Francis Herbert Hedge
  • You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason. -- Plotinus
  • Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ... -- Margaret Oliphant
  • Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue. -- Bram Stoker
  • In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor -- Kenneth Grant
  • Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. -- Samuel Smiles
  • Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. -- Henri Poincare
  • The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. -- Herbert Spencer
  • While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it -- Aristotle
  • Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. -- William James
  • The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind -- Anagarika Govinda
  • There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life -- Haile Selassie
  • much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ... -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together. -- David Bowie
  • Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. -- Samuel Butler
  • 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
  • Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise. -- Anne Bronte
  • To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. -- Hans Hofmann
  • English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. -- Mark Twain
  • Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself -- Mark Rutherford
  • The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch. -- Peter Kropotkin
  • It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. -- Oscar Wilde
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