If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.
That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.
People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.
English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection.
That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you have been the source of everything to begin with. Everything you've been looking for has been within yourself you have been that. You then begin to surrender everything to yourself. You surrender all of your thoughts, all of your feelings, you surrender all of your desires, all of your wants to the Self. You pull it in all inwardly.
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse.
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.
Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas. . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.