Possess Quotes

• All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believe
  • Judge
  • Conversation

• 'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

  

  Jane Austen
  • Force
  • Expression
  • Rapidity

• Probably the majority of those things that people possess may be legal or sourced sustainably, but there are other things that people just don't realize. You have to really watch out for this, particularly when you are traveling or buying things off the internet.

  

  Allen Crawford
  • Things
  • Buying
  • Possess

• Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Thought
  • Quest

• There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.

  

  John Calvin
  • Purpose
  • Rule
  • Neighbour

• To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

  

  William Blake
  • Knowledge
  • Possess
  • Idiots

• The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Motherhood
  • Qualities
  • Possess

• The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • People
  • Affection
  • Possess

• Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Possess

• In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

  

  Aristotle
  • State
  • Arms
  • Citizen

• In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Matters

• Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Enjoy
  • Possess
  • Employ

• And of all that passed my teeth And plunged into my ungrateful belly, Of these too nothing remained into the morning; but only this Do I still possess, what I put into my ears.

  

  Callimachus
  • Morning
  • Ears
  • Teeth

• Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Women
  • Possess
  • Resistant

• General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

  

  William Blake
  • Knowledge
  • Possess
  • Idiots

• Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

  

  Juan Ramon Jimenez
  • Infinite
  • Possess
  • Nostalgia

• If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Universe
  • Winning
  • Stage

• Love being different, embrace it, share it, live it because being different is not a curse but a gift we all posses that defines who we are and makes the world a better place.

  

  Katie Chapman
  • World
  • Different
  • Place

• Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.

  

  Jon Foreman
  • Truth
  • Possess

• Our greatest strength comes not from what we possess, but from what we believe; not from what we have, but from who we are.

  

  Michael Dukakis
  • Believe
  • Greatest
  • Comes

• I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give; Trying to give, we see that we have nothing; Seeing that we have nothing, we try to give ourselves, Trying to give ourselves, we see that we are nothing, Seeing that we are nothing, we desire to become, Desiring to become, we live.

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Live
  • Desire
  • See

• Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Possess
  • Stile
  • Leaping

• The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess. Jesus said if men held back their praise, even the stones might "cry out" in worship.

  

  Ed Buckner
  • Jesus
  • Creation
  • Worship of God

• Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

  

  Edna Woolman Chase
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Possess

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