Faculty Quotes - Page 19

• Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.

  James Arthur

  Writing, Mind, Signatures

  Source: www.32poems.com

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• For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Men, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.527, eKitap Projesi

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• Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

  Voltaire

  Expression, Ideas, Wish

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• From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.

  John Locke

  God, Real, Knowledge

  John Locke (1721). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)”, p.714, Library of Alexandria

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• Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.

  John Locke

  Wise, Nature, Mean

  John Locke (1815). “An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].”, p.96

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• Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

  Jamie Whyte

  Cynicism, Symptoms, Critical

  Jamie Whyte (2004). “Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders”, p.11, McGraw Hill Professional

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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.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Understanding, Mind, Indispensable

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.9

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• 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.

  Jon Porter

  Country, Teacher, Years

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

  Richard Steele

  Men, Purpose, Pleasure

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.475

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• Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

  John Locke

  Truth, Judging, Mind

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.530

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• Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Sight, Judging

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

  James Thurber

  Home, Drawing, Alcohol

  1930 In the New Yorker, 2 Aug.

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• Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?

  Calvin Trillin

  Football, Sex, School

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

  John Owen

  Exercise, Science, Men

  John Owen (1991). “The Works of John Owen”

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• I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Distance, Animal, Men

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• ...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting

  Will Schwalbe

  Teacher, Cancer, Eye

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• We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

  John Locke

  Exercise, Skills, Giving

  John Locke (1812). “Essay on human understanding concluded. Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common-place-book”, p.195

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

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Demand, Lessons

  Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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• If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Soul, Receiving, Prejudice

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• Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains
  in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Father, Philosophy, Teaching

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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• At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

  James Thurber

  Flower, Writing, Leaving

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.149, Library of America

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• Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Men

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• Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

  Joseph Butler

  Light, Innocence, Action

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• When all humanity works for humanity, when the life-business of men and women becomes one united partnership in all matters which concern each, when neither sex, race, color, or previous condition is held as a bar to the exercise of human faculties, the world will hold in its hands the promise of a millennium which will work out its own fulfillment.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Sex, Exercise, Men

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• If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

  Germaine Greer

  Running, Compassion, Animal

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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