Quotes About Acquisition

The house with the pomegranate tree was my major acquisition. In this sense, I owned some unreal estate. The odd thing was that every time I tried to see myself inside this grand old house, I felt sad. It was as if the search for home was the point, and now that I had acquired it and the chase was over, there were no more branches to put in the fire.

La Ley del Desapego dice que para adquirir cualquier cosa en el universo físico tienes que renunciar a tu apego hacia él.

George often bought books from publishers in an unbound state, then had the volumes bound according to his own preferences

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

Knowledge is constructed, not transferred

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

The more you know, the more you yearn for knowledge.

Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

The purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, and the subsequent admission of a portion of that Territory into the Union as a State, afforded one of the earliest occasions for the manifestation of sectional jealousy, and gave rise to the first threats, or warnings (which proceeded from New England), of a dissolution of the Union. Yet, although negro slavery existed in Louisiana, no pretext was made of that as an objection to the acquisition.