Faculty Quotes
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Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.
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I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
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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.
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Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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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.
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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.
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The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
