You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow. — Saadi Copy Share Image
In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses. — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . . — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work.… — Isha Judd Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. — James J. Corbett Copy Share Image
I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Everyone's gonna have their opinion, everyone's gonna have their favorite bands. The best way I can describe it is music is like… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range… — Samuel Wilson Copy Share Image
Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational… — Edwin Boring Copy Share Image
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching.… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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