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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. -- Ramakrishna
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. -- James Truslow Adams
Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves. -- Hope Solo
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. -- Laurence J. Peter
The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself. -- Burleigh Grimes
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. -- Robert Bresson
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. -- Raymond Queneau
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. -- Steven Pinker
Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. -- Pier Paolo Pasolini
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. -- Frank Chodorov
Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings. -- Victor Grignard
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. -- Bob Marley
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. -- Andrew Carnegie
It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened. -- Dave Reichert
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along. -- Kate Atkinson
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us. -- Mark Pagel
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art. -- Sallust
We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. -- John Bolton
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized. -- Emile Durkheim
Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence. -- Mason Cooley
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. -- Horace
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline -- James Truslow Adams
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. -- Wendell Phillips
That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love. -- Meister Eckhart
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B. -- Ambrose Bierce
The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires. -- Jean Racine
Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account. -- Frederic Bastiat
Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished! -- Pope Francis
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance. -- Joseph Conrad
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence. -- Milan Kundera
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle. -- Cullen Hightower
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity. -- Plato
The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself. -- Burleigh Grimes
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow. -- Saadi
Sometimes you have to let go in order to receive; after all the universe naturally acquires balance. -- Turcois Ominek
A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it. -- Justus von Liebig
Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance. -- Rajneesh
In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires. -- Swami Parthasarathy
A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains. -- Gautama Buddha
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so. -- Dominique Sutton
The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day. -- Laozi
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life. -- Spiros Zodhiates
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late. -- Fay Weldon
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability. -- Paul Valery
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. -- Martin Amis
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. -- Jimmy Buffett
The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that. -- Paul Gauguin
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own! -- Frederic Chopin
Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies. -- William Benton Clulow
The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life ... -- Chico Xavier
A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace. -- Eugene H. Peterson
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations." -- Pio of Pietrelcina
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers -- Zoroaster
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty. -- Joseph Joubert
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist. -- Marcel Proust
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. -- Alexander Pope
The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries. -- Swami Vivekananda
In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity. -- Joseph C Zinker
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks. -- Stendhal
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness. -- Abigail Adams
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value. -- Peter Robinson
The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things. -- Jorge Luis Borges
By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with its emotional spirit. -- John Dewey
A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down. -- Ernst Mayr

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