Quotes About Acquired

Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies; one catches it through unprotected thought intercourse with the stirred-up concept of the infinite.

I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn't acquire the knowledge.

A constitution has been acquired which, though neither of us think perfect, yet both consider as competent to render our fellow-citizens the happiest and the securest on whom the sun has ever shone.

Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.

I do not know how it happens that nature fails to place within the hearts of men a burning desire for liberty, a blessing so great and so desirable that when it is lost all evils follow thereafter, and even the blessings that remain lose taste and savor because of their corruption by servitude. Liberty is the only joy upon which men do not seem to insist; for surely if they really wanted it they would receive it. Apparently they refuse this wonderful privilege because it is so easily acquired.

Most folks didn't like Skinner. And those who did called him an acquired taste. Like sardines. Or the music of Jim Nabors.

Darwin, with typical prescience, suspected that this might be the case: Man alone is capable of progressive improvement. That he is capable of incomparably greater and more rapid improvement than is any other animal, admits of no dispute; and this is mainly due to his power of speaking and handing down his acquired knowledge.

I can be bought, but not bored.

You were born with only two fears, the fear of falling and the fear of noise. All your other fears were acquired. Get rid of them.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

Tariq said, "You never answered my question." "Which question was that?" "Do you like fado music?" "I suppose it's an acquired taste." He smiled and added, "Like Lisbon itself. For some reason it reminds me of home." "Fado is a music devoted to suffering and pain. That's why it reminds you of home." "I suppose you're right.

This genetic resistance, by the way, should not be confused with acquired immunity. Acquired immunity is when a body gets rid of a pathogen and afterward maintains a state of high alert for that same microbe. It's why people don't normally get the same illness twice. Genetic resistance is something deeper and more mysterious. It is not acquired through exposure—you are born with it.

That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.

To regard an organism as a replicator, even an asexual organism like a female stick insect, is tantamount to a violation of the 'central dogma' of the non-inheritance of acquired characteristics.

"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

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

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.

Love is a natural feeling, hatred is an acquired one.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

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