Faculties Quotes

• The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Love
  • Spirit
  • Poverty

• Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

  

  Charles Fletcher Dole
  • Together
  • Best
  • Present

• You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Circumstance
  • Gifted
  • Faculties

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

  

  Joseph Glanvill
  • Understanding
  • Faculties
  • Idiosyncrasies

• Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Habit
  • Need
  • Faculties

• Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wisdom
  • Preach
  • Faculties

• The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and the faculty of originating local movement.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Thought
  • Sense

• We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

  

  Joseph Cook
  • Peace
  • Faculties
  • Supremacy

• It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

  

  Confucius
  • Characters
  • Perfection
  • Account

• The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Exercise

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

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Educated
  • Developed
  • Faculties

• There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Life
  • Course
  • Faculties

• We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.

  

  Ali al-Naimi
  • Jobs
  • Oil
  • Faculties

• It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Death
  • Dust
  • Grave

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