#acquire

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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.


Avicenna


#all things #anything #causes #complete #knowledge

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?


Robert Barclay


#any #art #earthly #first #how

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.


G. Stanley Hall


#even #future #given #heredity #impossible

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.


Robert A. Heinlein


#almost #any #creed #cult #into

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.


Samuel George Morton


#acute #arts #external #great #great talent

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.


Liberty Hyde Bailey


#amount #anyone #bound #concerning #contribution

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.


Tori Amos


#acquired taste #everybody #hairy #i #know

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.


Aristotle


#acting #constantly #men #particular #quality

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.


Bertrand Russell


#citizens #democracy #eloquence #immunity #importance

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.


William H. Seward


#arbitrary #arbitrary power #domain #hold #indeed