Acquire Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

— Benjamin Franklin

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

— Ambrose Bierce

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

— Frederic Bastiat

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend,…

— Naomi Wolf

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

— Conrad Black

Arithmetic has began to totter.

— Gottlob Frege