Accumulate Quotes

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge, Yourself, May

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Age, Opinions, Weakest

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Gloria Steinem

Change, Money, Watch

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.
James Buchan

Hard, Trying, Modern

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Arthur Bloch

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.
Joshua Foer

Life, Time, Experience

You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it.
Sean Parker

Music, Start, Point

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
A. J. Liebling

Good, Food, Experience

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
Brian Mulroney

Political, Afraid, Spend

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.
Charles E. Wilson

Men, Free, Themselves

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Bruce Sterling

Ignorance, Ability, Level

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.
James Larkin

Good, Cannot, Nor

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.
William Vickrey

Great, Government, Desire

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
Jim Cooper

History, Nation, Debt

The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met.
Lee Krasner

Down, Sometimes, Place

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Junius

Today, Law, Another

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.
Jason Marsden

Job, Career, Put

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.
Margaret Whiting

Experience, Through, Needed

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Stefan Kanfer

Life, Cannot, Away

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
Lou Harrison

Knowledge, Live, Sadness

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
Richard Levin

Business, Large, University

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
E. L. Konigsburg

Great, Everything, Happen

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