Acquires Quotes

105 Acquires quotes by 99 unique authors

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the… — Joseph de Maistre
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn… — Tom Landry
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity. — Plato
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence. — Milan Kundera
One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both… — Seymour Papert
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. — Raymond Queneau
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge… — Tobias Smollett
In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires. — Swami Parthasarathy
Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished! — Pope Francis
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send… — Pio of Pietrelcina
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly… — Brian D. McLaren
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. — Horace
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires. — Jean Racine
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble,… — Erasmus Darwin
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears… — Matthew Arnold
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver… — E. M. Forster
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do… — Robert A. Heinlein
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him… — Bob Marley
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. — Laurence J. Peter
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. — Steven Pinker
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied… — Edward de Bono

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