Acquired Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

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

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.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

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.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

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.

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

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

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

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.