The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it;… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it. — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of… — Olivo Barbieri Copy Share Image
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only… — Edmund Burke 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
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
To all of you I should like to say that in the course of this war you will have to acquire the… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to… — Nathan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer… — John Berger Copy Share Image
If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at… — Mikhail Botvinnik 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
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
At times we are thrown suddenly into positions that seem too big for us and for which we have little preparation. The… — Robert E. Wells Copy Share Image
The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
