We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

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

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

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Acquire a government over your ideas that they may come down when they are called and depart when they are bidden.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are one Security to possessors two facility to acquirers and three hope to all.