Acquired Quotes

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.

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

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.