Acquaintance Quotes

299 quotes by 242 authors

The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood,… — James Madison
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. — Mark Twain
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I… — Sarah Vowell
You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be… — Jane Lynch
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. — Hattie McDaniel
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded… — Henry David Thoreau
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the… — Henry David Thoreau
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,… — George Boole
We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none. — Samuel Johnson
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks… — Seneca the Younger
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me… — Emile M. Cioran
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min? — Robert Burns
Acquaintance lessens fame. — Claudius
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true… — Plato
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the… — Indu Sundaresan
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance… — William James
The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic of the holy… — Wayne Dyer
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the… — David Hume
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of… — Thomas Malthus
Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the… — J I Packer

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