Obtained Quotes

Obtained Quotes & Sayings

These obtained quotes and obtained sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. - Alfred North Whitehead


Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. - Samuel Johnson


From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. - Nathaniel Hawthorne


How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? - Mary Wollstonecraft


Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. - Confucius


Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. - Thomas Arnold


No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. - Pythagoras


I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. - Samuel Johnson


Adherent: A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get. (The Devil's Dictionary) - Ambrose Bierce