A Quote by Frank Moore Colby

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Frank Moore Colby

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Acquisition Life Mental Middle Politics Temperament

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Frank Moore Colby
American - Educator
1865 - 1925

To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

Larry Hogan

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

John James Ingalls

I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament.

Donald Trump

In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.

Marco Rubio

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

Philip James Bailey

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

J. M. Coetzee

The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life of animals shows itself to be throughout, in its elements and in the general laws governing the combination of the elements, the same as the mental life of man.

Wilhelm Wundt

My friends tell me that I have the wrong temperament for politics.

Poonam Dhillon

My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.

Jane Addams

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

Charles William Eliot

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

Joaquim Barbosa

Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra.

Florynce Kennedy

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

Stendhal

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

Eric Linklater

Quite frankly, I don't want someone with the temperament of a middle school pubescent boy in the president's office.

Morgan Ortagus

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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