Acquired Quotes

524 quotes by 443 authors

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. — Franklin P. Adams
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household.… — H. Rap Brown
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few… — Smedley Butler
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men,… — Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. — Lord Chesterfield
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And,… — Kate Chopin
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to… — Emile M. Cioran
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. — Tori Amos
Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing;… — Erich Fromm
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. — Walter Lippmann
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. — Alexander Hamilton
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of… — Alexander Hamilton
However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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