Quotes about Faculty

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. Votes: 4

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. Votes: 4

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. Votes: 4

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. Votes: 4

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. Votes: 4

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. Votes: 4

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. Votes: 4

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. Votes: 4

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. Votes: 4

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. Votes: 4

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. Votes: 3

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies. Votes: 3

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. Votes: 3

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing. Votes: 3

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys. Votes: 3

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living. Votes: 3

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals. Votes: 3

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits. Votes: 3

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul. Votes: 3

Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students. Votes: 3

I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money. Votes: 3

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. Votes: 2

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind Votes: 2

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Votes: 2

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. Votes: 2

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. Votes: 2

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. Votes: 2

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. Votes: 2

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. Votes: 2

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty. Votes: 2

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. Votes: 2

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. Votes: 2

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. Votes: 2

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli. Votes: 2

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. Votes: 2

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. Votes: 2

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed. Votes: 2

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. Votes: 2

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. Votes: 2

The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community. Votes: 2

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. Votes: 2

Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe. Votes: 2

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost. Votes: 2

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. Votes: 2

Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.' Votes: 2

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring. Votes: 2

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. Votes: 2

There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain. Votes: 2

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame. Votes: 2

I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe. Votes: 2

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. Votes: 2

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business. Votes: 2

Faith is a higher faculty than reason. Votes: 0

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination. Votes: 0

Reason is the most active human faculty. Votes: 0

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope. Votes: 0

Man is God by his faculty for thought. Votes: 0

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. Votes: 0

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action. Votes: 0

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art. Votes: 0

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. Votes: 0

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts. Votes: 0

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced Votes: 0

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. Votes: 0

What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties! Votes: 0

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding. Votes: 0

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty. Votes: 0

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical. Votes: 0

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. Votes: 0

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. Votes: 0

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason. Votes: 0

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. Votes: 0

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. Votes: 0

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows. Votes: 0

The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. Votes: 0

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects. Votes: 0

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being. Votes: 0

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. Votes: 0

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days. Votes: 0

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted. Votes: 0

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. Votes: 0

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers. Votes: 0

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty. Votes: 0

... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder... Votes: 0

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Votes: 0

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. Votes: 0

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings. Votes: 0

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal. Votes: 0

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. Votes: 0

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason. Votes: 0

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Votes: 0

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses. Votes: 0

imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ... Votes: 0

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue. Votes: 0

In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor Votes: 0

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. Votes: 0

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. Votes: 0

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed. Votes: 0

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. Votes: 0

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. Votes: 0

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it Votes: 0

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. Votes: 0

The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind Votes: 0

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. Votes: 0

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life Votes: 0

much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ... Votes: 0

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together. Votes: 0

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. Votes: 0

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. Votes: 0

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. Votes: 0

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. Votes: 0

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values. Votes: 0

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise. Votes: 0

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. Votes: 0

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in. Votes: 0

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty. Votes: 0

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. Votes: 0

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself Votes: 0

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch. Votes: 0

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Votes: 0

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty. Votes: 0

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. Votes: 0

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. Votes: 0

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit. Votes: 0

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. Votes: 0

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies. Votes: 0

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. Votes: 0

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. Votes: 0

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling. Votes: 0

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. Votes: 0

As you train your mind, shockingly it brings you prosperity as well as the faculty to maintain it. Votes: 0

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.... Votes: 0

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? Votes: 0

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. Votes: 0

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. Votes: 0

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty. Votes: 0

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology. Votes: 0

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude. Votes: 0

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. Votes: 0

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. Votes: 0

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. Votes: 0

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation. Votes: 0

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. Votes: 0

That is the test of everything. Renounce everything. It is the creative faculty that brings us into all this entanglement. Votes: 0

God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue. Votes: 0

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values. Votes: 0

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful. Votes: 0

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage Votes: 0

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. Votes: 0

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Votes: 0

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. Votes: 0

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. Votes: 0

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty. Votes: 0

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. Votes: 0

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. Votes: 0

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart. Votes: 0

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn. Votes: 0

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. Votes: 0

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA. Votes: 0

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information. Votes: 0

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. Votes: 0

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior. Votes: 0

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. Votes: 0

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater. Votes: 0

The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty. Votes: 0

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. Votes: 0

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it. Votes: 0

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning. Votes: 0

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. Votes: 0

Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running. Votes: 0

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. Votes: 0

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. Votes: 0

Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege. Votes: 0

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive. Votes: 0

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments." Votes: 0

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. Votes: 0

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it. Votes: 0

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. Votes: 0

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation. Votes: 0

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Votes: 0

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. Votes: 0

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation. Votes: 0

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that. Votes: 0

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. Votes: 0

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own. Votes: 0

Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease. Votes: 0

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things. Votes: 0

Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice. Votes: 0

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. Votes: 0

Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations. Votes: 0

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving. Votes: 0

wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it. Votes: 0

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women. Votes: 0

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure. Votes: 0

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child. Votes: 0

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. Votes: 0

I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster. Votes: 0

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies. Votes: 0

Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all. Votes: 0

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see. Votes: 0

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment. Votes: 0

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. Votes: 0

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near. Votes: 0

I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not. Votes: 0

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week. Votes: 0

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training. Votes: 0

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. Votes: 0

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche. Votes: 0

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. Votes: 0

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution. Votes: 0

It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. ... I have done nothing in that direction since. Votes: 0

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Votes: 0

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection. Votes: 0

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God. Votes: 0

I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no Jewish faculty there. Votes: 0

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. Votes: 0

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged. Votes: 0

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience... Votes: 0

Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more. Votes: 0

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office. Votes: 0

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. Votes: 0

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say? Votes: 0

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend. Votes: 0

The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant. Votes: 0

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple. Votes: 0

I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe. Votes: 0

In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty. Votes: 0

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions. Votes: 0

Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices. Votes: 0

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience. Votes: 0

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention. Votes: 0

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe. Votes: 0

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty. Votes: 0

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active. Votes: 0

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer. Votes: 0

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation. Votes: 0

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams." Votes: 0

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity. Votes: 0

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art. Votes: 0

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture. Votes: 0

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity. Votes: 0

The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement. Votes: 0

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. Votes: 0

Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking. Votes: 0

This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture. Votes: 0

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. Votes: 0

If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast. Votes: 0

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. Votes: 0

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval. Votes: 0

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding Votes: 0

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research. Votes: 0

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty. Votes: 0

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together. Votes: 0

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward. Votes: 0

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science. Votes: 0

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations. Votes: 0

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. Votes: 0

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character. Votes: 0

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease. Votes: 0

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty. Votes: 0

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised. Votes: 0

Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it. Votes: 0

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays. Votes: 0

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way. Votes: 0

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting. Votes: 0

We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence. Votes: 0

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds. Votes: 0

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment Votes: 0

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars. Votes: 0

I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door. Votes: 0

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal. Votes: 0

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty. Votes: 0

Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often. Votes: 0

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. Votes: 0

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers. Votes: 0

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Votes: 0

Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves. Votes: 0

I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job? Votes: 0

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation. Votes: 0

The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty. Votes: 0

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. Votes: 0

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.' Votes: 0

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another. Votes: 0

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous. Votes: 0

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement. Votes: 0

Another faculty has released this knowledge: our spirit. It is God's Word in our spirit. It creates a reality that registers in our spirit. We live by this spiritual knowledge and walk in its light. Votes: 0

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering. Votes: 0

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range. Votes: 0

Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it. Votes: 0

Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on. Votes: 0

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota. Votes: 0

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students. Votes: 0

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence. Votes: 0

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children. Votes: 0