#acquire

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. ↗

— William Glasser

#ever #going #knowledge #lot #school

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#afraid #censure #death #dread #fame

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. ↗

— Stendhal

#argument #cautious #governed #habit #intense

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. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#adapt #exert #first #freedom #fruitful

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#basic #bathing #been #being #childhood

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#free #free people #liberty #lost #maxim

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#business #control #equality #excessive #exclusive

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. ↗

— Tarja Halonen

#among #competence #inequality #itself #other

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#acquire #actor #detail #ellis #good

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well. ↗

— Janos Kadar

#compatriots #earn #honour #only #other