Quotes About Acquired

The lessons of truth you've acquired are your wisdom jewels. Wisdom is often hidden underneath our greatest hardships, and it is the Intellectual who understands that the search for wisdom is the true path to healing.

To indulge one's instinctive and uncontrolled sense of justice and right, was not, he had found, permitted with impunity in an old civilization like ours. It was necessary to act under an acquired and cultivated sense of the same, if you wished to enjoy an average share of comfort and honour; and to let crude loving kindness take care of itself.

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.

And all the time my very soul would travel with her, invisible and crying soundlessly with pain. I had acquired a dimension of suffering which would poison and devour my whole being, as far as I could see, forever.

To the philosophical mind, these items might seem scarcely worth any great trouble to acquire. Yet no one, however philosophical, could give up those privileges, once acquired, without a pang. That was the point.

It's a rare thing, graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired, but not, I think, the substance.

Cancer immunotherapy is possible because we have a highly sophisticated immune system called 'acquired immunity,' which can catch small changes in tumor cells.

While soy milk is an acquired taste, I prefer almond, cashew and coconut milk.

Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

They settled into the long learning of one another: preferences, habits altered, others acquired; disagreement without bile; trust and that wordless conversation that years of companionship rest on.

Amanuensis. That was the word she chose, and since it was straight out of the nineteenth century, her mother approved, relishing the blank stares she received when she told her lady guests what position her daughter had acquired with the State Poet Laureate.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

Even in the information age, trust is not a mass commodity that can be acquired; it must be handcrafted in your soul.

I don't like wine,' says Davíd. 'It's sour.' 'Wine is an acquired taste. When we are young we don't like it, then when we are older we acquire a taste for it.' 'I am never going to acquire a taste for it.' 'That's what you say. Let's wait and see.' Having

The filth of village; honestly acquired.

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

I had no political background. That's why PM Bhutto gave me the responsibility of the nuclear programme, and we acquired nuclear capability in a span of mere six years, which was a great milestone.

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

Now, there was a time when we believed that what a human mind could accomplish was determined by genetic factors. Piffle, of course, but it looked convincing for many years, because distinctions between tribes were so evident. Now we understand that it's all cultural. That, after all, is what a culture is—a group of people who share in common certain acquired traits.

greatest beneficiaries of the chaos of the Soviet collapse, however, were those who acquired state property.

Besides, to be fair to him, his viciousness was perhaps not innate. From his earliest steps among men he had felt, then seen himself the object of jeers, condemnation, rejection. Human speech for him always meant mockery and curses. As he grew older he had found nothing but hatred around him. He had caught it. He had acquired the general viciousness. He had picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded.