Faith is a higher
faculty than reason.
View quotes by Henry Christopher BaileyA university is what a college becomes when the
faculty loses interest in students.
View quotes by John CiardiGod, 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
View quotes by QuintilianWe 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.
View quotes by Thornton WilderAugustine 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.
View quotes by John CalvinDoubt, 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.
View quotes by Albert PikeEvery mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every
faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty
View quotes by Giuseppe MazziniTalk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The
faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing
View quotes by John NealIf any one
faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. - Mansfield Park
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