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“The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.”

Eye Certain Imagination Mistake Objects Judgment Observation Compare Acquire Unconscious Comparison Customs Precision Arriving Correcting Involuntary

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.”

Objects Degrees Distance Acquire Offensive

Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

“To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which cultivates insight. In learning to live with peoples and civilizations that have long ceased to be alive, we gain a vantage point, acquire an enlargement and elevation of thought, which enable us to study with a more impartial and liberal mind the condition of the society around us.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects.”

“The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.”

Knows Should Mean Children Objects Gains Our Children Devotion Bread Pleasant Acquire Knowing God Recreation Earnestness Daily Bread

Author:Hermann Adler

“Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.”

Men Needs Children Reason Philosophy Certain Knowledge Objects Perception Victim Philosopher Foolish Absurd All Time Acquire Falsehood Succession Partiality

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.”

Should Left Rooms Design Objects Elements Acquire Interior Design Installation

Author:Charlotte Moss

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.”

“It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.”

Wish Doubt Objects Acquire Facility

Book:The Metaphysics

Source: The Metaphysics

“If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.”

Ifs Want Desire Objects Difficulty Determined Obsession Acquire Convince Convincing Convincing Yourself

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection