Acquainted Quotes

199 Acquainted quotes by 161 unique authors

Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient… — John Muir
People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore. — Viggo Mortensen
A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as… — Criss Jami
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. — Dave Eggers
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks… — Vernon Howard
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making… — David Hume
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted… — David Mamet
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine… — Taslima Nasrin
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. — Novalis
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with… — Norman Vincent Peale
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. — Bertrand Russell
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. — Gertrude Stein
I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted… — Sigourney Weaver
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted… — Elwyn Brooks White
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. — John Wooden
In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall… — Dag Hammarskjold
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that… — Jane Austen

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