#faculties

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? ↗

— Arthur Helps

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It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

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Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. ↗

— John Haggai

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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. ↗

— Francis Wright

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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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[...] I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people. I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#faculties #education

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. ↗

— Robert Henri

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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

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