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
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. — John Galt Copy Share Image
Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement… — Dean Keith Simonton Copy Share Image
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
No Keynesian has ever proposed a measure designed to make the individual more productive; for that would require institutional means for enabling… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. — Tarja Halonen Copy Share Image
We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society,… — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires. — Swami Parthasarathy Copy Share Image
