Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. . . . To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.
My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.
Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have
To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment. An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?
If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets. . . The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.