Quotes with possession

  • Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
  • Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
  • We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him, if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.
  • Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
  • The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Epicurus Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Albert J. Nock Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Vera Brittain Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Francis Bacon Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • George Santayana A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Alexander Smith A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
    Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (2014)
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Ben Johnson Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • André Gide Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • John Ruskin Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Eric Butterworth Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • George Orwell For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Pericles Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
    Pericles
     
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