Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat. , Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur. ]
In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many of the patterns that we unconsciously believe to be true. There is not simply the addition of new metaphors and images, but the metaphors and images themselves flow out of a new consciousness inspired by a new awareness of the cosmos.
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in the espousal of art. Now America has the leisure and the culture to foster beauty.
For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.
I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.
What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.