Acquisition Quotes (2)
The science of the modern school … is in effect … the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity…
Mankind in the Making (1903), 206.
The wise man should study the acquisition of science and riches as if he were not subject to sickness and death; but to the duties of religion he should attend as if death had seized him by the hair.
In Charles Wilkins (trans.) Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit: being the Hitopadesa (1885), 18.
See also: | Death (95) | Death (95) | Duty (8) | Religion (69) | Riches (2) | Sickness (6) | Study (38) | Subject (13) | Wisdom (44)
