“Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.”
“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.”
William Arthur Ward
“There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.”
William Osler
“The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.”
Charles Sanders Peirce
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them”
Mark Twain