Acquaintance Quotes & Sayings
These acquaintance quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. - George Eliot
An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. - Ambrose Bierce
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. - Lord Chesterfield
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. - Henry David Thoreau
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. - Confucius
The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena. The water does not merely cleanse his limbs, but it purifies his heart; for it touches his soul. The earth does not merely hold his body, but it gladdens his mind; for its contact is more than physical contact, it is a living presence. When a man does not realize his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him When he meets the eternal spirit in all objects, then is he emancipated, for then he discovers the fullest significance of the world into which he is born; then he finds himself in perfect truth, and his harmony with the All is established. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. - Charles Caleb Colton