Faculty Quotes

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

Hope, Lost, Lord

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.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Government, Rather, United

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Nothing, Saying

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Henry Ward Beecher

Human, Soul, Hatred

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James

Means, Genius, Perceiving

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.
Erich Fromm

Love, Human, Reason

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

Young, Themselves, Dying

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

Men, Try, Goodness

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men, Mean, Since

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham

Together, Cannot, Creative

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.
Joseph Addison

Heart, Laughter, May

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.
Albert Pike

Doubt, Reason, Progress

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.
William Congreve

Time, Business, Wisdom

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn

Spiritual, Intuition, Simply

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Logical, Guess, Habit

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
David Herbert Lawrence

Away, Moral, Disguise

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.
Marquis de Sade

Different, Spring, Same

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.
Audre Lorde

Women, Men, Black

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.
John Calvin

Good, Evil, Reason

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
John Ciardi

College, Interest, Students

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.
Thornton Wilder

Death, Mind, May

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.
Ashley Montagu

Medical, Said, Between

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.
Quintilian

Nature, God, Character

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mind, Parents, Bondage

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Henri Bergson

Reality, Necessary, Intellect

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.
Karen Armstrong

Knowledge, Technology, Today

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

Mind, Promise, Boy

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
Henri Poincare

Experience, Mind, Creativity

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Henri Bergson

Making, Instinct, Using

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.
Michel Gondry

Revenge, Through, Means

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