#faculty

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#early #early childhood #exercising #faculty #had

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

#business #canons #either #evidence #faculty

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#choice #choose #day #death #faculty

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#before #chemistry #department #faculty #father

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#cal #computer #faculty #hikes #how

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

#developed #faculties #faculty #genius #highly

Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#addicted #after #among #being #business

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#alumni #athletics #campus #faculty #major

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#hatred #human #human soul #persistent #soul