Acquire Quotes

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.

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 upward movement, without limit.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

We work to become, not to acquire.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.