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
I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Let's stop discussing about who a wise person is and start learning to become wise persons. Begin acquiring knowledge at the very… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils… — Marcelo H. del Pilar Copy Share Image
You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news. — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension… — John Stuart Mill 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
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally. — Andrew Gould Copy Share Image
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us… — Stephen Nachmanovitch 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
An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence... your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
