(117 quotes found)
“Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
William James
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!”
William Shakespeare
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.”
Chuang Tzu
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them”
John Lubbock
“Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.”
Stephen Fry
“CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."”
Ambrose Bierce
“Hollywood was a silver-nitrate finishing school for a whole generation with a faculty that included Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, John Gilbert, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin and Rudolf Valentino.”
C. David Heymann
“Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.”
Henri Bergson
“The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.”
Charles Horton Cooley
