Top 329 Acquainted Quotes & Sayings

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.

Become acquainted with every art.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

One [expert] said, 'Always have a baby sitter who is acquainted with your children.' If they were acquainted with my children, they wouldn't sit!

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

I am not well-acquainted with the names of Indian artists.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

My district is well-acquainted with my commitment to protecting innocent human life.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.

Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!'

Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.

I am one who has been acquainted with the night

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.