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"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them." »Lord Chesterfield
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"Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"If thou lackest knowledge, what hast thou then acquired? Hast thou acquired knowledge, what else dost thou want?" »The Talmud
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"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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"Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired." »Venezuelan Proverb
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"Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels." »Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." »Albert Einstein
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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." »Franklin P. Adams
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"He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed." »Saadi, On the Duties of Society
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"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead." »Frank Gelett Burgess
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"Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself: the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion." »The Hitopadesa
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"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." »Plato, The Republic
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"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." »Plato
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"We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better." »Native American
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"Knowledge acquired by a man of low degree places him on a level with a prince, as a small river attains the irremeable ocean; and his fortune is then exalted." »The Hitopadesa
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud." »Confucius
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"It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose." »Boris Pasternak
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"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift." »Seneca
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"Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it?these four qualities are with difficulty acquired." »The Hitopadesa
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"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts." »Siddha Nagarjuna
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"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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"The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words." »South
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"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." »Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry." »Mark Twain
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"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet." »Phillip Earl Stanhope
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"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet." »Lord Chesterfield
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"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in." »Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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"Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction." »Juliene Berk
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"Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction." »Juliene Berk
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"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security." »Author Unknown
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