Faculty Quotes

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

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

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.

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

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

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.

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

But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.

An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want

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

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

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

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

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

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

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

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.

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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

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

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

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