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Quotes About Faculty

pues una de las más felices facultades de la mente humana es la de poder ignorar lo que la conciencia se niega a asimilar
~ William Faulkner
Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospital that's quotes about salary of nursing.
~ Chris Fowler
Every faculty that naturally belongs to the human mind is latent in every mind, and it can be awakened and developed, provided the proper laws are faithfully applied.
~ Christian D. Larson
Intelligence… is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
~ Henri Bergson
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
~ Henri Bergson
If the senses and the consciousness had an unlimited scope, if in the double direction of matter and mind the faculty of perceiving was indefinite, one would not need to conceive any more than to reason. Conceiving is a make-shift when perception is not granted us, and reasoning is done in order to fill up the gaps of perception or to extend its scope.
~ Henri Bergson
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
~ Henri Poincare
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~ Henry A. Giroux
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
~ Henry Adams
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Most of the students, and probably the faculty, were ambivalent about the whole idea of Disciplines. They were socially divisive, the theory behind them was weak, and everybody ended up studying pretty much the same curriculum anyway, so what was the point? But it was traditional for every student to have one, so a Discipline every student would have. Alice called it her magic bat mitzvah.
~ Lev Grossman
Now that he was teaching Quentin could see why the faculty didn't bother trying to improve the climate. It kept people amazingly focused. … You could actually watch as the determination to seize the moment and live life to the fullest ebbed right out of them, and they resigned themselves to lonely, silent, indoor study instead.
~ Lev Grossman
Three weeks after I arrived at school, the head of the drama department dropped dead. That certainly didn't bode well for the future of my higher education, and it left the department in a bit of a shambles. They picked a temporary head of the department from the faculty and he referred to himself as the temporary head. As a result, as much as he would like to make decisions on a variety of issues, he couldn't ... because he was only temporary. He was temporary for the entire time I was there.
~ Lewis Black
Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.
~ Henry Rosovsky
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.
~ Erich Fromm
We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
~ Azim Premji
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
~ Epictetus
I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?
~ Rachel Vincent
Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
~ John Piper
There are professors, Plantinga drily notes, who have left faculty meetings feeling more enlightened by what they said than by what they heard!
~ David F. Wells
She looked up and saw that his scrutiny had gratified him. It was one of the few comforting factors in Demelza's excursions into society, this faculty she had of pleasing men. She did not see it yet as power, only as a buttress to faltering courage. She
~ Winston Graham
Money does not guarantee excellence. Although university salaries and faculty quality are correlated, the correlation is far from perfect.
~ Herbert A. Simon