Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Claude Bernard

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather

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

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
Robert Toombs

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emile M. Cioran

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Bernard de Mandeville

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

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
Cyril Connolly

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus

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.
Avicenna

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.
Janos Kadar

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
Eknath Easwaran

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Denis Diderot

Reality is an acquired taste.
Robert Fritz

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.
Bill Dixon

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Yeardley Smith

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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.
Edward Thorndike