You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.
Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers. . . it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and devils; we are matter, and they tell us of spirit; we have five senses whereby to admit truths, and a reasoning faculty by which to build our belief upon them; and they tell us of dreams dreamed thousands of years ago, which our experience flatly contradicts.
The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty.
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
Freud. . . showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses. . . I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.
The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.