The knowledge of anything since all things have causes is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces and that cure is freedom.

Negation is the mind's first freedom yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.

The seven wise men of Greece so famous for their wisdom all the world over acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job to teach. His first school his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind and one of the most important is faith which cannot be acquired without prayer.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

Frivolity is inborn conceit acquired by education.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Beauty like truth is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature but the measure can be acquired by art.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.

My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired and I've put them all to work onstage.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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