Acquainted Quotes

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.