Acquirement Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary…
— Charles Darwin
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Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to…
— Willis R. Whitney
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of…
— William Stanley Jevons
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
— Anthony Trollope
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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no…
— John Dewey
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The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living…
— Joseph Pilates
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The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with…
— Edmund Burke
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The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors...
— Joseph Pilates
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No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of…
— Martha Graham
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Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
— Mark Twain
Who Wrote These Acquirement Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Acquirement Quotes as follows: