Faculty Quotes

• Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Ambition

• All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Achievement
  • Achieve
  • Perception

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

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Art
  • Genius
  • Appreciation

• Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • King
  • Faculty
  • Priest

• I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Information
  • Mountain
  • Lawyer

• Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.

  

  William Pinnock
  • Patient
  • Painful
  • Sensations

• It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Poverty
  • Genius
  • Faculty

• The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Faculty

• 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
  • Intelligence
  • Produce
  • Valuable

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