The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to… — RZA Copy Share Image
The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire." — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
I started with Apple, in a pre-Windows era when PCs seemed to involve more of a learning curve. But the fact that… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of… — Victor Grignard Copy Share Image
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Contrology (Pilates) is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Many people say, "When I get a million dollars, then I'll be happy because I'll have security," but that's not necessarily so.… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics… — David Swing Copy Share Image
In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence. — William Feather Copy Share Image
No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. — Tarja Halonen Copy Share Image
A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so. — Dominique Sutton Copy Share Image
The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and… — William Fleming Copy Share Image
You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity. — Catherine Ingram Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it.… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent… — Samuel George Morton Copy Share Image
If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering. — Laozi Copy Share Image
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all. — J. Edward Day Copy Share Image
