Acquired Quotes

524 Acquired quotes by 422 unique authors

You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio.… — Will Self
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. — Yeardley Smith
We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America… — Charles Stanley
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will… — Stendhal
When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I… — Daniel Tammet
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. — Sara Teasdale
I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste. — Hunter S. Thompson
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of… — E. O. Wilson
It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In… — Tom Wolfe
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be… — John Wooden
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow… — Samuel Johnson
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men… — Mark Twain
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of… — Rachel Carson
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great… — Leonardo da Vinci
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste… — Walter Kaufmann
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't… — Jerry Spinelli
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver
She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had… — Margaret Atwood
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time. — Neal A. Maxwell

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