1.
It is not enough to acquire wisdom,
it is necessary to employ it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is insufficient to gain insight, one must use it.
2.
Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.
Uthman ibn Affan
Glean insight from the tales of those who have gone before.
3.
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.
Mark Twain
4.
I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
Lupita Nyong'o
5.
Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.
Lester Wunderman
6.
Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.
LeCrae
8.
A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
9.
In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.
Swami Parthasarathy
11.
People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
Larry Elder
12.
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
Edith Wharton
13.
One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.
P.D. Ouspensky
14.
Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.
Umar
16.
You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.
Orrin Woodward
17.
You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute.
Mark Victor Hansen
18.
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
Denis Diderot
20.
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
Marvin Minsky
21.
To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
22.
The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.
Charlie Munger
24.
TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
Ambrose Bierce
25.
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
William Glasser
27.
A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.
Justus von Liebig
28.
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
29.
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
Aesop
30.
Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished.
Pope Francis
31.
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
Horace
32.
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
33.
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
Edmund Burke
34.
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
Aldous Huxley
35.
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
Steven Pinker
36.
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.
Baltasar Gracian
37.
To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.
J. Edward Day
38.
That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.
Philippe de Commines
40.
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.
Milan Kundera
41.
The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.
Jane McGonigal
42.
In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.
Deepak Chopra
43.
Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
John Wooden
44.
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
Marianne Williamson
45.
You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.
Suzanne Collins
46.
Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
C. S. Lewis
48.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
John Bercow
49.
Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.
Boyd K. Packer