If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired
In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.
I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.
Besides, immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control things.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.
In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.
The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life ...
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost... It is what you live in.
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.
