It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching… — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it. — Charles Elachi Copy Share Image
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
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