The phrase "acquire humility" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of developing or gaining a sense of humility, often in a personal growth or self-improvement context.
Example: "Through various life experiences, I have learned to acquire humility and appreciate the perspectives of others."
Alternatives: "cultivate humility" or "develop humility".
You have acquired humility by accident.
He might have added that Congress – and Presidents and presidential candidates – should also acquire some humility.
Then, as I became an adult, I was forced to acquire a humility, accepting that the things I felt I was owed, I wasn't – the same way I had to accept, during this period, that Arsenal mightn't win a boatload of trophies, that my relationship with football was going to be less comforting and more painful than it had been before.
Until it can acquire some measure of humility about what it knows, and a degree of magnanimity to those who have opposed it, it will smash into crises and failures.
On Election Day, in May, Stewart stood on a trailer pulled by a tractor and quoted from "Four Quartets" through a megaphone — "The only wisdom we can hope to acquire / Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless".
On Election Day, in May, Stewart stood on a trailer pulled by a tractor and quoted from "Four Quartets" through a megaphone—"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire / Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless".
At least Spitzer, who was himself famously argumentative when he was New York governor, appears to have acquired a degree of humility since his fall from grace in a prostitution scandal.
If he has acquired a certain wisdom and humility late in life, they have arrived too late to do him any good, which only adds salt to his wounds.
During the economic crisis in Argentina beginning in the late 1990s, which culminated in 2002 in the rapid devaluation of the country's currency, Bergoglio acquired a public reputation for humility, living in a simple downtown apartment rather than in the archbishop's residence and traveling by public transportation or by foot rather than in a chauffeured limousine.
But humility has been an acquired quality.
