We work to become not to acquire.
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor which rests wholly upon yourself.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments cellularly like a laborious mosaic.
The way I look at it everything is a trade. You acquire some money so then you've got no financial burdens but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?
The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.
The Cox Report documents a systematic well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.
If success is a habit it is a hard one to acquire.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly how much more then in spiritual?
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney homogenized and sold off piece by piece.
In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.
It is a truism that almost any sect cult or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Ironically women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
Since the nature of people is bad to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
The more a race is governed by its passions the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument the more intense will be its love of music.