(204 quotes found)
“The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing”
Voltaire
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
Wayne Dyer
“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.”
William Arthur Ward
“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“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
“She acquires momentum as she advances.”
Virgil
“We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.”
Milan Kundera
“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.”
Sidney Lanier
“Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.”
Daniel P. Moynihan
“The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.”
Carl Rogers