Acquired Quotes

524 quotes by 422 authors

Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they… — Frank P. Ramsey
When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired… — Albert Houtum-Schindler
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the… — George Washington
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. — David Lloyd George
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the… — Cyril Connolly
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly… — Mark Twain
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. — Cyril Connolly
Love is a given, hatred is acquired. — Douglas Horton
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Philibert Joseph Roux
How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in… — Michel de Montaigne
However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a… — Martin Luther
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was… — Enrico Fermi
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. — Sidney Lanier
Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of thinking Mind... — Walter Russell
Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. — Felix Dennis
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst… — Marcel Proust
When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the… — Ludwig von Mises
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. — Seneca the Younger

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