(208 quotes found)
“The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.”
Robert Bresson
“This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose of developing her intelligence, or raising her heart to serious things, not of widening her field of ambitions, dethroning man”
Christine de Pisan
“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
“Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.”
Pearl S. Buck
“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 problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
Condoleezza Rice
“As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense”
William Lyon Phelps
“I think their focus for the early part of 2006 is going to be integrating the businesses they've acquired.”
Carl McDonald
“He who is not industrious acquires nothing.”
Rig Veda
