A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

— Malcolm Cowley

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably…

— James Branch Cabell

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

— Victor Hugo

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in…

— Horace

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it…

— Cameron Diaz

“Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.”

— Dōgen

“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.”

— Paul Hoffman

“We are the Edema Ruh, and the thing we value most every man possesses. You can tell us your story.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is unfortunate that many people today cannot appreciate the value that every man possesses.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

— Channing Pollock

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save…

— James Branch Cabell

A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life,…

— Albert Schweitzer