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Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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I never guess. It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty.
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In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
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Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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