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Faculty Quotes - Page 2

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7574, Delphi Classics

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

Bram Stoker, Eleanor Bourg Nicholson (2012). “Dracula”, p.264, Ignatius Press

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1845-July 1845, letters 1799-1981”

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

"Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.81, Hackett Publishing

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Amos Bronson Alcott (1836). “Conversations with Children on the Gospels”, p.39

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.4, e-artnow