Definition of Acquiring

Acquiring Quotations

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
William Glasser

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
William Glasser

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
William Glasser

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Eric Hoffer

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume