We Acquire Quotes
41 quotes by 38 authors
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Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
— Albert Einstein
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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
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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
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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
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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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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
— Ernst Lubitsch
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Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature can be seen in her visible…
— Paracelsus
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Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
— Wayne Dyer
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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We are not defined by our things. It´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire- It´s not…
— Alyson Noel
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As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in…
— Sharon Salzberg
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We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed…
— Marya Hornbacher
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As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is…
— James E. Faust
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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an…
— Felix Adler
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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.
— Mark Twain
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