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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.


Marilyn vos Savant

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To gain wisdom, you must not only acquire knowledge, but you must assimilate it within your being.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.
SUDIE BACK Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.
SUDIE BACK Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Humility is greater than knowledge,because humility makes one want to acquire more knowledge.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
PROVERB Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
SPANISH PROVERB See everything that you have to acquire wisdom, to acquire that ability to see, picturize and envisi...
SUNDAY ADELAJA One must come out of comfort zone & acquire the courage to make the difficult decisions.This will he...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The more wisdom,knowledge and education you acquire, the less absolute,determined and finite your af...
LORIANN ZEMANOVICH In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowl...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safe...
L. FRANK BAUM To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We need to acquire wisdom and knowledge so that we would be able to keep and preserve our blessings ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it
ALBERT EINSTEIN It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
ARNOLD GLASGOW It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA To acquire great wealth in life is like someone erecting a one hundred floor building,it takes time ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) By enthusiasm one acquire unimaginable strength.
RIG VEDA You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must underg...
ALBERT CAMUS You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo ...
ALBERT CAMUS Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be ord...
XUN KUANG Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
JOHN BERCOW Because textbooks are the backbone of classroom instruction, we must demand improvement so that our ...
GEORGE NELSON I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowle...
ILYAS KASSAM One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHAL One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHAL (MARIE-HENRI BEYLE) One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
HENRI B. STENDHAL One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
MARIE HENRI BEYLE One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
STENDHAL The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORI As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
CHARLIE TROTTER Whatever your field of interest is, when you read books written by the giants in that field you will...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Enerzise all your experience to develop & acquire skill & wisdom to make you a person of success.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's a lot less expensive to keep a loyal customer than to go out and acquire a new one.
JOHN NEE We do acquire when we need to complement whatever we've got ... but we aren't one of these companies...
SERGE TCHURUK Education is one of the most valuable and lasting possessions one can acquire.
BARTOLOME QUINTANA As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the f...
ALISON LURIE There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturall...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own. -Goethe.
GOETHE All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
JOHANN VON GOETHE All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Jane Heard.
ONE One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
STENDHAL It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one mus...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There must be an opportunity that matches with our strategy. Just because we have a gap, we don'...
ADI GODREJ They say with age comes wisdom but the wisdom that you acquire as an old man is really only worth ha...
CARL WHITE the measure of achievements in life are directly related to the acquire knowledge, not to the social...
JAIME TENORIO VALENZUELA He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death...
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death...
WILLIAM GILLMORE SIMMS He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the de...
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES One must have the courage to give children up;
One must have the courage to give children up; <...
JACQUES CHARDONNE No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep ...
ALAN BLEASDALE To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep ...
BONSTETTIN To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep t...
KARL VON BONSTETTEN To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep...
BONSTETTIN To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep ...
CHARLES-VICTOR DE BONSTETTIN No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
NAPOLEON HILL One of the features of chess is that chess does not acquire mass character.
ILKIN SANTAK Being true to oneself is the most personally valuable skill one can acquire, for it leads to genuine...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The North American business was only one of the many strategic rationales behind our decision to acq...
JAN RUNAU What we found was that maturational timing -- onset of first period -- was not an important factor f...
AVIVA MUST We know that children who are overweight have advanced bone development -- they grow faster in all w...
AVIVA MUST For the parents of a girl who is not overweight and who gets her first period early, it doesn't mean...
AVIVA MUST Given the epidemic of obesity in the population, it's important to know where best to intervene.
AVIVA MUST Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES In order to gain great Power one must have the Courage and Wisdom to obtain it.
CHARLES ROBERT SIMMONS II To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enoug...
JACQUE FRESCO Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
CONFUCIUS The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor var...
G. STANLEY HALL The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL ROGERS The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL R. ROGERS The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills t...
DAN PINK It’s a sort of fashion these days to advocate students to acquire wisdom than mere education, but ...
ANUJ SOMANY Read+Study+Research=Knowledge. Apply all brings Wisdom.
ALEX HARTLEY JR. Anything you can acquire is only another thing you’ll lose.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around hi...
RUDOLF STEINER A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficie...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you c...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO One should strongly resent miserliness and indulge in charity because one can acquire the never-endi...
RIG VEDA Your education is one of the greatest treasures you can ever acquire and something no one can ever t...
SUSAN C. YOUNG Economics has as its purpose firstly to acquire knowledge for its own sake, and secondly to throw li...
ALFRED MARSHALL We work to become, not to acquire.
ELBERT HUBBARD There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for...
NAPOLEON HILL To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Is there any way to safeguard and acquire wealth? Yes, there is one sure way: namely, never to covet...
THIRUVALLUVAR In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we ac...
JAMES P. CARSE Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
BETTE MIDLER Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
JULE STYNE

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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at hom...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't kno...
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT I've found that most so-called sources are full of error and bias.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Everything one says or writes, no matter how clear, can and will be misunderstood by a large percent...
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes t...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about th...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint o...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen thing...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are diff...
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
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MARIANNE VOS Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today'...
RON VOS The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
GEERHARDUS VOS We've just got to plow on through.
DEBORAH VOS It's scary because it's not a rock. This is something different that was used, that's for sure.
DEBORAH VOS We have no idea what has happened.
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RON VOS We say that Apple Computer has been using the Apple mark in connection with musical content. It uses...
GEOFFREY VOS They are in the music business.
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GEOFFREY VOS The deal says, you stick to computers and we'll stick to music. This is a simple case. They advertis...
GEOFFREY VOS They were the people who were supplying computer systems, computer software, computer hardware. That...
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GEOFFREY VOS That advertisement is as flagrant violation of this agreement as it is possible to imagine.
GEOFFREY VOS Apple Computer can go into the recorded music business in any way they want. What they cannot do is ...
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CHRIS DE VOS It's definitely been postponed to May 1.
CHRIS DE VOS A culture of secrecy is like the bad stench created by cat pee—it is very difficult to get rid of.
PIERRE DE VOS Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
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MARILYN MANSON When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
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MARILYN MANSON Art gives people a reason to be alive.
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MARILYN MANSON The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in...
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MARILYN MANSON I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to conve...
MARILYN MANSON I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room.
MARILYN MANSON When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on lo...
MARILYN MANSON If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
MARILYN MANSON If you lose who you are, what do you have?
MARILYN MANSON Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
MARILYN MANSON I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because w...
MARILYN MANSON Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fi...
MARILYN MONROE Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've ...
MARILYN MONROE I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.
MARILYN MANSON Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds th...
MARILYN FRENCH The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important ...
MARILYN HACKER Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunitie...
MARILYN FERGUSON When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest...
MARILYN MANSON Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wi...
MARILYN MONROE Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanth...
MARILYN MANSON Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about ...
MARILYN MANSON My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back ...
MARILYN MANSON A smart girl leaves before she is left.
MARILYN MONROE How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
MARILYN MONROE First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself ...
MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
MARILYN MONROE To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on ...
MARILYN MONROE A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
MARILYN MONROE I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. lik...
MARILYN MONROE It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit...
MARILYN MONROE There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it w...
MARILYN MONROE I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
MARILYN MONROE A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. Sh...
MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never comple...
MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened...
MARILYN MONROE I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
MARILYN MONROE I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.
MARILYN MONROE I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
MARILYN MONROE The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn&...
MARILYN MONROE I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way,...
MARILYN MONROE I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
MARILYN MONROE It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feel...
MARILYN MONROE Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and w...
MARILYN MONROE The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
MARILYN MONROE Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't...
MARILYN MONROE What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
MARILYN MONROE It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
MARILYN MONROE Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him t...
MARILYN MONROE I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
MARILYN MONROE I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
MARILYN MONROE Friends accept you the way you are.
MARILYN MONROE I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
MARILYN MONROE Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive m...
MARILYN MONROE We should all start to live before we get too old.
MARILYN MONROE The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
MARILYN MONROE I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
MARILYN MONROE We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
MARILYN MONROE If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
MARILYN MONROE Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absol...
MARILYN MONROE I don't digest things with my mind.
MARILYN MONROE It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
MARILYN MONROE I like to feel blonde all over.
MARILYN MONROE The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
MARILYN MONROE A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
MARILYN MONROE When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
MARILYN MONROE A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
MARILYN MONROE Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do...
MARILYN MONROE I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
MARILYN MONROE If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
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MARILYN MONROE It's all make believe, isn't it?
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MARILYN MONROE You know, most people really don't know me.
MARILYN MONROE I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
MARILYN MONROE One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females...
MARILYN MONROE I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
MARILYN MONROE I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
MARILYN MONROE Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up...
MARILYN MONROE The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our opennes...
MARILYN FERGUSON Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
MARILYN MONROE Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
MARILYN MONROE We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.
MARILYN FERGUSON To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to ...
MARILYN FRENCH I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
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MARILYN MONROE Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
MARILYN MONROE Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid ...
MARILYN FRENCH Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
MARILYN MANSON If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally re...
MARILYN MANSON Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
MARILYN MONROE Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've exper...
MARILYN MONROE To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the ...
MARILYN MONROE No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl
MARILYN MONROE It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
MARILYN MONROE When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I...
MARILYN MONROE In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, ...
MARILYN MONROE Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
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