Quotes about Acquired

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. Votes: 1

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Votes: 1

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. Votes: 1

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Votes: 1

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom. Votes: 1

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Votes: 1

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. Votes: 1

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. Votes: 1

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste. Votes: 1

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. Votes: 1

My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills. Votes: 1

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. Votes: 1

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. Votes: 1

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. Votes: 1

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. Votes: 1

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened. Votes: 1

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. Votes: 1

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. Votes: 1

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. Votes: 1

After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style. Votes: 1

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate. Votes: 1

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. Votes: 1

An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth. Votes: 1

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. Votes: 1

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions. Votes: 1

You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast. Votes: 1

Death is an acquired trait. Votes: 0

Reality is an acquired taste. Votes: 0

Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates. Votes: 0

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. Votes: 0

Love is a given, hatred is acquired. Votes: 0

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. Votes: 0

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired. Votes: 0

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. Votes: 0

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge Votes: 0

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes. Votes: 0

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste. Votes: 0

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste. Votes: 0

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed. Votes: 0

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. Votes: 0

Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste. Votes: 0

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. Votes: 0

Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated. Votes: 0

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired. Votes: 0

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. Votes: 0

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty. Votes: 0

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age. Votes: 0

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves. Votes: 0

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired. Votes: 0

Love is a natural feeling, hatred is an acquired one. Votes: 0

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure. Votes: 0

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Votes: 0

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Votes: 0

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. Votes: 0

Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult. Votes: 0

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed. Votes: 0

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all. Votes: 0

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song. Votes: 0

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. Votes: 0

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. Votes: 0

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired. Votes: 0

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. Votes: 0

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift. Votes: 0

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy. Votes: 0

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener. Votes: 0

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction. Votes: 0

The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer. Votes: 0

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Votes: 0

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. Votes: 0

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form. Votes: 0

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature". Votes: 0

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius. Votes: 0

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. Votes: 0

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar]. Votes: 0

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth. Votes: 0

Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved. Votes: 0

Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about. Votes: 0

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone. Votes: 0

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking. Votes: 0

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life. Votes: 0

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity. Votes: 0

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work. Votes: 0

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not. Votes: 0

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. Votes: 0

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired. Votes: 0

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. Votes: 0

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge. Votes: 0

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. Votes: 0

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. Votes: 0

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. Votes: 0

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. Votes: 0

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence. Votes: 0

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. Votes: 0

I could be anything but for the faults that I've acquired on my way. Votes: 0

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it Votes: 0

The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired. Votes: 0

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes. Votes: 0

A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired. Votes: 0

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities. Votes: 0

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead. Votes: 0

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. Votes: 0

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality. Votes: 0

The most important things to be acquired for freedom and democracy, are identity and dignity. Votes: 0

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream. Votes: 0

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith. Votes: 0

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. Votes: 0

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty. Votes: 0

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake! Votes: 0

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. Votes: 0

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk. Votes: 0

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. Votes: 0

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Votes: 0

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. Votes: 0

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness. Votes: 0

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Votes: 0

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice. Votes: 0

Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them. Votes: 0

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. Votes: 0

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. Votes: 0

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired Votes: 0

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. Votes: 0

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. Votes: 0

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. Votes: 0

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading. Votes: 0

Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry. Votes: 0

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war. Votes: 0

Your retirement does not mean you are tired but you have learned more or acquired more experience. Votes: 0

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Votes: 0

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service. Votes: 0

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth. Votes: 0

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. Votes: 0

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. Votes: 0

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. Votes: 0

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Votes: 0

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years. Votes: 0

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. Votes: 0

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well. Votes: 0

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no. Votes: 0

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display. Votes: 0

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce. Votes: 0

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. Votes: 0

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. Votes: 0

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. Votes: 0

Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control. Votes: 0

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles. Votes: 0

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. Votes: 0

Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision. Votes: 0

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. Votes: 0

It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired. Votes: 0

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. Votes: 0

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. Votes: 0

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste. Votes: 0

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired. Votes: 0

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. Votes: 0

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory Votes: 0

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. Votes: 0

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. Votes: 0

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18... Votes: 0

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. Votes: 0

Let each citizen contribute their natural talents or acquired skills to the greater benefit of all in the community. Votes: 0

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom. Votes: 0

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock. Votes: 0

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom. Votes: 0

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me. Votes: 0

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience. Votes: 0

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. Votes: 0

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly. Votes: 0

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained. Votes: 0

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. Votes: 0

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. Votes: 0

Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. Votes: 0

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living. Votes: 0

...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. Votes: 0

Do not forget that chiropractors did not treat diseases. They adjust causes, whether acquired, spontaneous, or the result of accident. Votes: 0

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.] Votes: 0

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. Votes: 0

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately. Votes: 0

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. Votes: 0

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Votes: 0

To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System. Votes: 0

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory. Votes: 0

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits. Votes: 0

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. Votes: 0

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence. Votes: 0

People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo. Votes: 0

For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me. Votes: 0

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading. Votes: 0

It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary. Votes: 0

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. Votes: 0

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. Votes: 0

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it? Votes: 0

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later. Votes: 0

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Votes: 0

Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person. Votes: 0

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. Votes: 0

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. Votes: 0

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. Votes: 0

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again. Votes: 0

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice. Votes: 0

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it? Votes: 0

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one. Votes: 0

The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself. Votes: 0

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. Votes: 0

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. Votes: 0

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. Votes: 0

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil. Votes: 0

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. Votes: 0

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings. Votes: 0

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . . Votes: 0

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. Votes: 0

.. all the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek ... Votes: 0

You smoke? (Randy) Only when I'm on fire. (Steele) I don't appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I'm an acquired taste. (Steele) Votes: 0

Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies; one catches it through unprotected thought intercourse with the stirred-up concept of the infinite. Votes: 0

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. Votes: 0

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense. Votes: 0

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting. Votes: 0

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Votes: 0

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one. Votes: 0

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture Votes: 0

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative. Votes: 0

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it. Votes: 0

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. Votes: 0

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. Votes: 0

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism. Votes: 0

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter. Votes: 0

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Votes: 0

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Votes: 0

Hating is a full time job with no benefits, only an acquired type can do it. I thank God I didnt meet the qualifications. Votes: 0

Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of thinking Mind... Votes: 0

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized. Votes: 0

Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile. Votes: 0

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. Votes: 0

In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained. Votes: 0

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Votes: 0

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent. Votes: 0

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. Votes: 0

The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. Votes: 0

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods. Votes: 0

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. Votes: 0

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in. Votes: 0

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. Votes: 0

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude. Votes: 0

Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000. Votes: 0

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost. Votes: 0

But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored. Votes: 0

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor. Votes: 0

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time. Votes: 0

You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked; it is skill-learnt! Votes: 0

I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever. Votes: 0

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others. Votes: 0

Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath. Votes: 0

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. Votes: 0

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.' Votes: 0

An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful. Votes: 0

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music. Votes: 0

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries. Votes: 0

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters. Votes: 0

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline. Votes: 0

Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs. Votes: 0

In light matters--matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things--he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat. Votes: 0

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money. Votes: 0

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men. Votes: 0

By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good. Votes: 0

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. Votes: 0

Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them. Votes: 0

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. Votes: 0

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment. Votes: 0

Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before! Votes: 0

Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency. Votes: 0

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself. Votes: 0

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. Votes: 0

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired. Votes: 0

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. Votes: 0

The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything. Votes: 0

Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?" Votes: 0

Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an education… Votes: 0

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world. Votes: 0

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail. Votes: 0

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion. Votes: 0

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex. Votes: 0

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. Votes: 0

I won’t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.” “From all indications, you’ve acquired enough for ten men. Votes: 0

Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else. Votes: 0

There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied. Votes: 0

Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract .. every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants. Votes: 0

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story. Votes: 0

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen. Votes: 0

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight. Votes: 0

I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two. Votes: 0

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own. Votes: 0

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. Votes: 0

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create. Votes: 0

Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I've found the answer in the simple file box. Votes: 0

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired. Votes: 0

Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong. Votes: 0

When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life. Votes: 0

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort Votes: 0

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible. Votes: 0

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not. Votes: 0

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter. Votes: 0

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.] Votes: 0

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence. Votes: 0

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance. Votes: 0

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it. Votes: 0

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information. Votes: 0

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree. Votes: 0

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance. Votes: 0

Let us live and move in harmony. Let us grow together. Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding. Votes: 0

Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity. Votes: 0

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond. Votes: 0

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it Votes: 0

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. Votes: 0

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice. Votes: 0

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.' Votes: 0

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. Votes: 0

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources. Votes: 0

It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them. Votes: 0

Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts. Votes: 0

Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you. Votes: 0

Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives. Votes: 0

Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world. Votes: 0

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage. Votes: 0

Ah, my daughter, he saidEighteen, and already you've been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see. He pausedI couldn't be prouder. Votes: 0

I should ask if it was good for you," Miles murmured, "but given that evidently you acquired the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it must have been-excuse the word-cosmic. Votes: 0

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task. Votes: 0

You're constantly, in human culture, trying to balance between uplifting, heartfelt, sincere, earnestness that empowers and enlightens people, and the sarcastic cynicism that comes from just people's acquired bitterness over experiences. Votes: 0

Death was a leech; no matter which side of the spectrum you were on, either dead or alive, it fed. It either acquired your soul or devoured all your joyful emotions. Votes: 0

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later. Votes: 0

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance. Votes: 0

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions. Votes: 0

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners. Votes: 0

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails. Votes: 0

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent. Votes: 0

Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed. Votes: 0

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's. Votes: 0

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose. Votes: 0

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you. Votes: 0

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. Votes: 0

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline. Votes: 0

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand. Votes: 0

Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites. Votes: 0

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it. Votes: 0

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. Votes: 0

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence? Votes: 0

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being. Votes: 0

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better. Votes: 0

Ah my daughter. Eighteen and already you've been accused of murder, aided felons and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see. I couldn't be prouder.- Abe Mazure Votes: 0

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor. Votes: 0

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. Votes: 0

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it. Votes: 0

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. Votes: 0

It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human. Votes: 0

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. Votes: 0

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. Votes: 0

What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk? Votes: 0

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Votes: 0

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired. Votes: 0

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads. Votes: 0

Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future. Votes: 0

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Votes: 0

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation. Votes: 0

I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them. Votes: 0

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Votes: 0

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job. Votes: 0

Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear. Votes: 0

You see that wealth is scattered all across the Muslim world but not a single TV channel has been acquired which can preach Islamic injunctions according to modern requirements and attain an international influence. Votes: 0

It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin. Votes: 0

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art. Votes: 0

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness. Votes: 0

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science. Votes: 0

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. Votes: 0

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy. Votes: 0

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. Votes: 0

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. Votes: 0

My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable. Votes: 0

Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut. Votes: 0

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. Votes: 0

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. Votes: 0

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be. Votes: 0

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. Votes: 0

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society Votes: 0

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work. Votes: 0

Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned. Votes: 0

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer Votes: 0