Possession Quotes

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

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.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.