Acquirements Quotes

#1. When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

Hannah More

#2. We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes
the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?
I had a bigger hole to fill.
What do you mean?
A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego.

Michka Assayas

#6. We can't change the past. But we will keep repeating it if we continue to live by the beliefs and agreements set in response to past events.

Julie Tallard Johnson

#7. It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.

Kelly Slater

#8. Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.

Larry Ellison

#9. Life is fundamentally up for grabs

Jonathan Lethem

#10. I've always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction.

Benny Bellamacina

#11. Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.

Michael Zaslow

#12. Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

Rachel Caine