Faculty Quotes

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

God, 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.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.

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

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.