Acquiring things Quote by Ernest Hemingway

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They…

— Ernest Hemingway

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

— Juvenal

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable…

— Bathsua Makin

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

— Ellen Terry

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.

— Nachman of Breslov

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years…

— John Henry Newman

We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to

— Paulo Coelho

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

— Oscar Wilde

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage…

— Jim Rohn

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

— Euripides

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

— W. Somerset Maugham