Acquiring Quotes

210 quotes by 180 authors

William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any… — Jill Ker Conway
Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill. — Twyla Tharp
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. — Joseph Stiglitz
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the… — Thomas More
When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm,… — Origen
Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more… — Cecil Rhodes
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.… — James Madison
Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last. — H. Rider Haggard
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies… — Alma Gluck
Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the… — Stephen Bayley
Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application. — Edwin Louis Cole
The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning, — John Doerr
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. — Henry Mayhew
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall… — Henry Mayhew
We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them… — Wilford Woodruff
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods… — John Dewey
Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success. — Ezra Taft Benson
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting… — Alan Perlis
The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who… — Chidananda Saraswati
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. — Andre Maurois

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