Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth. — Eric Linklater Copy Share Image
. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out. — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word,… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile… — Sandy Adams Copy Share Image
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils,… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
At most corporations if you make an acquisition and it turns out to be a disaster, all the paperwork and presentations that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation. — Helen and Scott Nearing Copy Share Image
Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it. — Charles Elachi Copy Share Image
My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me. — Arthur Blank Copy Share Image
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
“There’s a best time for everything – including the acquisition of capital.” — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
