To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. Bertrand Russell
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me. Anne Brontë
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed. Heraclitus