Faculty Quotes

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Stephen Fry
- Loses
- Professors
- Faculty
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.

Rene Descartes
- God
- Judging
- Possess

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

Edwin Percy Whipple
- Poverty
- Genius
- Faculty
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
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

Herbert Spencer
- Important
- Moral
- Faculty
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
- Priest
- Faculty