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Acquiring Quotes by William James
- In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at…
- So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or…
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- Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. — Mahatma Gandhi
- If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as… — Charles Darwin
- Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning… — Ray Lankester
- President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. — John O. Brennan
- The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also… — John O. Brennan
- In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of… — Erik Dammann
- In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds… — William James
- For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their… — Adolf Hitler