Acquiring Quotes

210 quotes by 180 authors

The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is… — Walter Lippmann
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing… — Marcel Proust
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow... — Paul Gauguin
Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as… — Guru Nanak
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and… — Benjamin Franklin
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. — R. Buckminster Fuller
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. — William Glasser
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. — William Glasser
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. — William Glasser
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. — Charles Caleb Colton
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of… — Denis Diderot
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. — Eric Hoffer
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. — David Hume
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring… — Samuel Johnson
The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences… — Jeffrey Kluger
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could… — John Yoo

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