Acquired Quotes

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

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.