Faculty Quotes

The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties

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

If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

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

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

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.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

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

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

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.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.

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

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.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

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.

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.

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.

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

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.