Acquired Quotes

524 quotes by 422 authors

The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is failure to act when action is needed. Use the information that you've acquired in… — John Wooden
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should… — Unknown Author
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. — Laozi
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status. Here are some… — Bob Hope
Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of… — Plato
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education,… — Henry Adams
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth… — Pope John Paul II
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service. — Saint Augustine
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity. — Pope John Paul II
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess… — Garry Kasparov
It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society… — Teresa Heinz
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. — Henri Rousseau
Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. — Prudentius
But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored. — Donald Trump
The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history... the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis, even though the… — Rick Sanchez
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey,… — Vanna Bonta
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. — Edward Bond
Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are… — Alva Myrdal

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