Top 885 Acquired Quotes & Sayings

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering.

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

Death is an acquired trait.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

Classified information includes much more than the actual 'secrets' acquired. It includes how they were acquired and the process by which related analyses were made.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They need to produce some of the food we eat, so they can pay the taxes and hold onto the property. Taxes keep going up. We, and by we I mean black people, are rapidly becoming a landless people. Our ancestors, coming out of slavery, acquired more than 15 million acres of land. Today, we're probably down to less than 2 million acres.

There are some cases that have come to my attention where there's been a head injury, or getting struck by lightning and surviving, with really no disability or residual. So there are cases that I'm aware of where there's been some incident which triggered the acquired savant ability, but is not associated with long term disability, so that can occur. But I think that's probably the exception rather than the rule in that I think many of the acquired savants do end up with some residual disability.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

Reality is an acquired taste.

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired, shouldn't we be doing everything in our power to protect people from acquiring it? Shouldn't we lean to the side of protecting the children instead of affirming a scientific hypothesis that has no actual truthful foundation?

Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle. And the same thing with math, and the same thing with art. You'll find people who are geniuses, or prodigies at the far end of the bell shaped curve, and I think you will find some of the acquired savants in that category who happened to have been endowed with that kind of talent, which explains why not everyone becomes an acquired savant.

Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

We are pleased to have acquired remake rights of 'Comali' for all languages in the world.

The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.

Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.