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The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
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.
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.
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.
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.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
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.
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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.
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty,
Even though this world is forever altering its values.
I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.
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.
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Most people, certainly faculty, believe that if they're for social justice, it's automatically integrated into whatever they do.
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
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.
God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.
Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.
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.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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.
To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.
Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
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.
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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.
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.
If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
