Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds fro...m something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her lif...e, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the heart of the educational process lies the child. No advances in policy, no acquisition of new equipment have their desired ...effect unless they are in harmony with the child, unless they are fundamentally acceptable to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this... faculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analysed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; ...and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisi...tion obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devo...te more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Always and everywhere children take an active role in the construction and acquisition of learning and understanding. To learn is ...a satisfying experience, but also, as the psychologist Nelson Goodman tells us, to understand is to experience desire, drama, and conquest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage..., our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the way-side as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,--"Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your "emancipation." You have read yourself into a number of new ideas ...and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields--discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West--superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »