Faculty Quotes
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Aristotle -
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
Aristotle
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
William James -
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 Harvey Hill -
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
Gertrude Atherton -
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
Tea Obreht -
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 -
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
William Francis Buckley -
Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .
Martin Delany -
While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.
Aristotle -
People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
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 Francis Buckley -
Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.
William C. Kirby
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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.
J. C. Kumarappa -
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Henry Ward Beecher -
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
Plotinus -
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Martin Luther -
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.
Immanuel Kant
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In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.
Saadi -
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
Francis Bacon -
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.
Epictetus