Top 1200 Faculty Members Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the issues of the incarnation and the Trinity divide people who are no longer members of the same community and who no longer speak the same language.

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

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

Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Most people, certainly faculty, believe that if they're for social justice, it's automatically integrated into whatever they do.

Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.

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

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

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

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

Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members

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.

The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

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

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

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

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

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

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

In the Communist Party, we address problems very openly and sometimes very vocally, and we point out abuses. This is a good thing. We exercise self-criticism once a year. Although 80 percent of the members of the National Assembly are also members of the Communist Party, this does not prevent them from sharply criticizing the administrative and governmental system.

I wanna thank everybody - I wanna thank everybody in this room. And it's a privilege to be here this morning with you. So many distinguished members of our services, and that's really what you are, very, very highly distinguished members.

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.

Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.

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.

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

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

That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can create a gang and have an identity and fight for something and stand up for something just by making pop songs. They're my gang members and gang members are for life, and if you try and leave, we execute you. That's the way it goes. A simple bang, back of the head, into the river, and we keep moving on.

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

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

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.

It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.

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

When I begin to feel tired and do not want to work anymore, I see my members next to me working so hard without taking a break. When I see the members like that, I end up thinking a lot. Because we can see each other grow and hold each other accountable, we all improve together.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

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

If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. So many members of the lesbian and gay community feel they have had violence done to them by religious groups that it is very difficult to evangelize any members of our community. But we do evangelize.

While Congressional members face the political costs of debate on military action, our service members bear the human costs of those decisions. And if we choose to avoid debate, avoid accountability, avoid a hard decision, how can we demand that our military willingly sacrifice their very lives?

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

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

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

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

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

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

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

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

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

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.