Acquired Quotes

524 quotes by 422 authors

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth. — Philipp Meyer
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge.… — Philipp Meyer
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have… — Tom Glavine
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor… — Paulo Freire
I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such… — Leonard Maltin
Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression… — Yukio Mishima
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Â Almost every thing we do… — Jacque Fresco
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs… — Adolf Loos
The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams,… — Adam Parfrey
Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking. — Fritz Machlup
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a… — Lewis Mumford
The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has… — Laozi
The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence… — Lee H. Hamilton
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. — Philip Warren Anderson
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom. — Mirra Komarovsky
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling… — Renata Adler
Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk. — Margaret Mary Alacoque
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have… — Samuel Johnson

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