#faculty

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ↗

— John Ciardi

#college #faculty #interest #loses #students

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

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#circumstances #dying #either #faculty #marvelous

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bodily #faculty #goodness #men #mental

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#eight #faculty #hours #know #minds

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. ↗

— William Congreve

#come #faculty #father #father time #fools