What you want, what you have and what you need are always three different things... and you will most likely never acquire… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces,… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, when… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Acquire and store a reserve of food and supplies that will sustain life. ... As long as I can remember, we have… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to… — George Polya Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
You can't go to the pharmacy to buy a pack of experience, you have to be in those games in order to… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my… — Gregg Harper Copy Share Image
Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work. — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter. — Andrew Delbanco Copy Share Image
And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image