We work to become not to acquire.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

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

Virtues are acquired through endeavor which rests wholly upon yourself.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments cellularly like a laborious mosaic.

The way I look at it everything is a trade. You acquire some money so then you've got no financial burdens but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

The Cox Report documents a systematic well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

If success is a habit it is a hard one to acquire.