In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We measure our lives by what we get, what we acquire, and what we know... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire. — Philippe de Commines Copy Share Image
Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality. — Niklaus Wirth 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
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
The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature… — Joseph A. Schumpeter 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
I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will… — Charles Krauthammer 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
Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved;… — John Hancock 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
Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at… — Lawrence Hargrave 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
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
If you try to acquire something, you'll lose something else along the way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you convert your time into acquiring skills, you will be skillful” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
