#acquire

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#acquired taste #complicates #free #instinctively #left

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#even #future #given #heredity #impossible

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#boys and girls #look #lovely #makes #nature

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#could #doth #ever #every #experience

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. ↗

— John Pearson

#birth #carry #common #death #die

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

— Plato

#compulsion #hold #knowledge #mind #obtains

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

#age #capacity #wisdom

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#job #lose #power #their #wants

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. ↗

— Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

#gold #greater #hunger #made #more

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#another #does #fame #self #you