Acquirement Quotes

#1. There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Anthony Trollope

#2. One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.

Mary Shelley

#3. The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#4. The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

Edmund Burke

#5. The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors ...

Joseph Pilates

#6. Morals are an acquirement, like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis, no man is born with them.

Mark Twain

#7. Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge

Mary Shelley

#8. The remedy for the mental unrest, which is in itself an illness, lies not in an enlightened knowledge of the harmfulness and ineffectiveness of worry, not even in the acquirement of an unconscious conscience, but in the living of a life so full and good that worry cannot find place in it. That

Herbert J. Hall

#9. Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

Alfred North Whitehead

#10. How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Shelley

#11. In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

#12. Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

Robert Aris Willmott

#13. The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Thomas Carlyle

#14. Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

John Dewey

#16. Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power
that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#17. To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.

Martha Graham

#18. If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.

Gautama Buddha

#19. No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

H.L. Mencken

#20. In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by graduation.

Charles Darwin

#21. Our body is the temple of our spirit.

George W. Romney

#22. Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C.S. Lewis

#23. Writing gives me wings.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#24. I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'.

Ruth Smeeth

#25. Let the RAGE consume you, and you will find out, that pain is all you will get at the end of that journey

Ivan Diaz Bananaxx

#26. In order to make any permanent changes, you have to be willing. Willing to see things differently. Willing to experience new ideas. Willing to listen to the people who cheered you on rather than ones who echoed your fears.

Rhonda Britten

#27. What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.

Harold Klemp

#28. I've learned ... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

Andy Rooney

#29. The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers U.S. service members who might be captured by the enemy, and is anathema to the values Americans have held dear for generations.

John McCain

#30. I don't suppose you know what he was attempting to accomplish here?" "Perhaps he felt slighted at not receiving an invitation." Levana

Marissa Meyer

#31. It is one thing to believe in women, and another to believe what they say

Carlos Ruiz Zafon