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524 Acquired quotes by 422 unique authors

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to… — John Templeton
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard… — Loren Eiseley
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. — Hippocrates
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired. — Juvenal
The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that… — Giacomo Leopardi
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within… — Konrad Lorenz
I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. — Thomas B. Macaulay
When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one. — Christopher Nolan
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and… — Samuel Johnson
Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size and has acquired… — John of Damascus
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. — Criss Jami
... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind… — Symeon the New Theologian
In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a… — Gerhard Richter
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain
Do not forget that chiropractors did not treat diseases. They adjust causes, whether acquired, spontaneous, or the result of accident. — Daniel D. Palmer
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted… — Charles Bass
People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in… — Jeffrey Bewkes

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