We Acquire Quotes

41 We Acquire quotes by 38 unique authors

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others. — Denis Diderot
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right… — Thomas Jefferson
... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent… — Shunryu Suzuki
I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for. — Charis Wilson
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences… — Honore de Balzac
We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information… — Darrel Ray
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious… — Polybius
By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we… — Gautama Buddha
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of… — Ursula Goodenough
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. — Jerome Bruner
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire. — Leonhard Euler
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our… — Jacque Fresco
Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate… — George Polya
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit. — Sam Ewing
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions… — Terence McKenna
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. — Mark Twain
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it… — Charles Caleb Colton
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen. — Albert Einstein
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties.… — Vincent de Paul
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become… — William Hazlitt
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by… — Hippocrates
The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the… — David Hume

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