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For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ↗

— Thomas Willis

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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty. ↗

— Nancy Cartwright

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By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children. ↗

— Mark Foley

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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. ↗

— Albert Pike

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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

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