Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.
The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up in the same areas: music, art, math, visual, spatial skills, and calendar calculating, although calendar calculating probably isn't quite as prominent in that group. They tend to show up quite quickly, or sort of explode on the scene and they then tend to have an obsessive sort of forceful quality about them in the same way as savant skills. So they tend to show up in the same ways.
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired.
Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.
money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.
Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.