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Letter "T" » The Faculty
«In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
artificial intelligence, faculty, Faculty of, feature, indefinitely, in short, manufacture, Manufacturing, The Faculty, urging
«A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
University
| Keywords:
Colleges and universities, college student, faculty, students, The Faculty, university
«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.»
Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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all powerful, animals, Animal World, architect, Creator, distinguish, faculty, Faculty of, impressed, proper, The Faculty
«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.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
accompany, comparison, doubting, faculty, Faculty of, improvement, onward, preliminary, prerogative, prerogatives, questioning, stages, The Faculty
«Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
artificial intelligence, The Faculty
«In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
contradictions, faculty, Faculty of, ignoring, in practice, in principle, set aside, The Faculty, trifles
«Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
faculty, Faculty of, genius, perceiving, The Faculty
«I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.»
«If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
mirth, The Faculty
«Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
faculty, Faculty of, in truth, perceiving, The Faculty
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