Acquirement Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

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
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
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
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
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. — Anthony Trollope
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
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
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
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
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
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors... — Joseph Pilates
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
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
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
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
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. — Mark Twain

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