No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

— Edgar Allan Poe

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning…

— Roy Romer

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a…

— Otto Weininger

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of…

— Bill Watterson

But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is…

— Arthur Hughes

I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was…

— Carrie Coon

One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or…

— Peter Senge

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused…

— Lester R. Brown

Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that…

— Warren Buffett

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the…

— Sophocles

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births…

— Milarepa

Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians…

— Howard Roberts

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of…

— John Adams

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

— Anonymous

The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,…

— K. Anders Ericsson