Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.
I want to have all of my faculties.
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.
Reason is the most active human faculty.
He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.
That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to convince labor, parents, and the general public that the fight over higher education is a fight that benefits everyone in a sustainable democracy and not just faculty and students.
The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.
Faith. . . that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy and strong individuals to survive is replaced by a sheer craze to 'save' feeble and even diseased creatures at any cost. And thus the seeds are sown for a human progeny which will become more and more miserable from one generation to another, as long as Nature's will is scorned.
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.
Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.
Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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.
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.