Acquired Quotes

524 Acquired quotes by 422 unique authors

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately. — Jonathan Demme
Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known,… — Archibald Garrod
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in… — Derek Jacobi
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. — Avicenna
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had… — Avicenna
Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And Iâ€™ve found the answer in… — Twyla Tharp
Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also… — Janet Yellen
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont
Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security… — Victor Pinchuk
About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults,… — Doris Janzen Longacre
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books… — A. Edward Newton
Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative. — Guy Claxton
All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. — Leo Tolstoy
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. — Tacitus
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth. — Mark Twain
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one. — Charles Lamb
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead… — William Hazlitt

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