Faculty Quotes

I am obliged to confess that I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Not, heaven knows, because I hold lightly the brainpower or knowledge or generosity or even the affability of the Harvard faculty: but because I greatly fear intellectual arrogance, and that is a distinguishing characteristic of the university which refuses to accept any common premise.

When Nature gives a young man no other utilizable faculty, she must be understood as intending him for a soldier.

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

Our ratio of administrators to classroom teachers and students is unacceptably high

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.