Faculty Quotes - Page 15

• For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Art, Play, Logic

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Imagination, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2539, Delphi Classics

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• Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Education, Mother, Sex

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1845). “Letters to Mothers”, p.16

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• But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment; and a false relish may frequently be corrected by argument and reflection. There are just grounds to conclude, that moral beauty partakes of this latter species, and demands the assistance of our intellectual faculties, in order to give it a suitable influence on the human mind.

  David Hume

  Art, Reflection, Order

  David Hume, J. B. Schneewind (1983). “An Enquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals”, p.15, Hackett Publishing

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• It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Men, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.130, Xist Publishing

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• When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader.

  Walter E. Williams

  Ivy, League, Splits

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• Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Men, Creative

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2400, Delphi Classics

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• One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

  William Matthews

  Law, Energy, Attention

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• 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.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Learning, Simple, Able

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• Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you have shed upon the name of Columbia College. I thank you for the Faculty of the College, for the manifest service you have done to this institution. . . . I am convinced that in one day or in one summer, you have done more to make Columbia College known than all your predecessors have done since the foundation of the college by this, your great triumph.

  Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

  Summer, Winning, College

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• Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

  Plato

  Children, Passion, Reality

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• I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish 'psychic distance' from the 'mental facts' to which Köhler referred, and then to explore the possibilities for developing explanatory theories... We must recognize that even the most familiar phenomena require explanation and that we have no privileged access to the underlying mechanisms, no more so than in physiology or physics.

  Noam Chomsky

  Distance, Thinking, Order

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• The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Class, Psychology, Inquiry

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

  Margaret Fuller

  Beauty, Truth, Flower

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• Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

  A. E. Waite

  Business, Mind, Ordinary

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.

  Richard Jefferies

  Business, Lying, Equality

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• It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Failure, Long

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.139

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• 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

  Thomas Willis

  Fall, Animal, Understanding

  Thomas Willis (1685). “The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick”, p.490

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Imperfection, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.112

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• A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wisdom, Government, People

  John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes”, p.516

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• CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Strong, Adversity, Animal

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.38, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Lyman Abbott

  Men, Essence, Transcendentalism

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.9

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• Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Ambition, Self Confidence

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.107, FV Éditions

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• There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Excellence, Trying

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