Acquire Quotes · Page 8

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency…

— John Pearson

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. .…

— Madeleine L'Engle

A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way…

— Kingsley Martin

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and…

— Alan Kay

Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that…

— Cesar Pelli

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

— Eddie Murphy

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that…

— Daniel Goleman

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

— Uthman ibn Affan

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

— Joan Fontaine

It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit…

— Lewis H. Lapham

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

— Jeb Bush

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it…

— Josh Billings

Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

— Horace

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural…

— Quintilian

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved;…

— John Hancock

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize…

— C. S. Lewis

[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of…

— John Adams

Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest…

— Erma Bombeck

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

— Benjamin Franklin

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are…

— Harlan Mills

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through…

— Giorgio Agamben

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he…

— Francis of Assisi

Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the…

— Martha Gellhorn