I was very adept at acquiring languages.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of...
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possib...
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth.
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation. It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private p...
One of see. S. Louis's endeavors as a teacher was to persuade young people that first-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring then second-hand knowledge, but it is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire. And so, Lewis wrote, a stu...
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
