mental faculty Quotes

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

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.

I have an amazing ability to forget.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

Man is an imagining being.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

Reason is the most active human faculty.