Faculties Quotes

• Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Distance

• As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.

  

  Edward Miner Gallaudet
  • Mind
  • Genius
  • Eternity

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

  

  Joseph Glanvill
  • Understanding
  • Faculties
  • Idiosyncrasies

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

  

  Joseph Cook
  • Peace
  • Faculties
  • Supremacy

• 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

• In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

  

  Aime Martin
  • Soul
  • Degree
  • Faculties

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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, 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

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

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Circumstance
  • Gifted
  • Faculties

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