Acquire Quotes · Page 15

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some…

— Charles Caleb Colton

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of…

— Benjamin Haydon

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made…

— P. D. James

We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.

— Paulo Coelho

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

— Aesop

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move…

— Bill Gates

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an…

— Martin Luther

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

— George W. Bush

Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning…

— Ray Lankester

If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

— Lamar Trotti

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in…

— David Hume

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of…

— William James

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

— William Feather

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

— Nathaniel Branden

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,…

— Erasmus Darwin

If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire…

— Igor Babailov

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as…

— Helen Keller

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

— David Platt

Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished!

— Pope Francis

To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself…

— Ernest Chapman

But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to…

— Condoleezza Rice

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

— Spiros Zodhiates

People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes…

— H. P. Blavatsky

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he…

— Stefan Zweig

Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the…

— Steven Pinker