Faculty Quotes - Page 14

• A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

  Aristotle

  Freedom, Exercise, Men

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• Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

  Glenn Beck

  School, Gun, Virginia

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Animal, Blood, Riding

  T.E. Lawrence (2016). “The Mint: Lawrence after Arabia”, p.230, I.B.Tauris

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• The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Feds, Imaginative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.231

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• It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

  Jann Wenner

  Children, Fun, Heart

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• Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Use, Reason, Revelations

  Edward McKendree Bounds, Lyle W. Dorsett (1991). “E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.

  Edward Miner Gallaudet

  Men, Wind, Effort

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• In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Desire, Influential, Individual

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• There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties

  Charles Darwin

  Differences, Fundamentals, Higher

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• The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Learning, Numbers, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.45, 谷月社

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• Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties. It sometimes comprised more than this, but it always included this. It was the opposite of doubt and of the spirit of doubt. What irreverent men called credulity, reverent men called faith; and although one word was more respectful than the other, yet the two words were with most men strictly synonymous.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Opposites, Ideas

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.63

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• English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doors, English History, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

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• I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Educational, Acceptance, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Soul, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.294

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• One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Pride, Son

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.169

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• When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.

  Arthur Koestler

  Passion, Men, History

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• Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.

  Lydia M. Child

  Prayer, Heart, People

  Letter to Harriet Seward, 1869.

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• The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Eye, Writing, Adults

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.58, Random House

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• The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Silence, Humanity

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• And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

  Epictetus

  Courage, Greatness, Endurance

  Epictetus (2012). “Discourses (Books 1 and 2)”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Anatole France

  Men, Choices, Doubt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

  James Madison

  Government, Giving, Protection

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Imagination, Mysterious

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• A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

  John Stuart Mill

  Exercise, Mind, Taught

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “Utilitarianism”, p.20

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• UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Yield, Mind

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