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1275 Possess quotes by 914 unique authors

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts… — Haim Ginott
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. — Evelyn Waugh
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does… — Thomas Merton
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… — Jane Austen
The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the… — Saul Alinsky
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of… — Anais Nin
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true… — Plotinus
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will blossom and others… — Kent Nerburn
He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick… — Jhumpa Lahiri
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all… — Oscar Wilde
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to… — Marcel Proust
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? — Ann Druyan
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we… — Saint Augustine
It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to… — Vladimir Nabokov
O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch… — Jane Austen
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? — Unknown Author
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ… — Stanislaw Lem
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and… — John Dewey
The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge of the truth,… — Joseph Fielding Smith
Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of… — Haruki Murakami
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid,… — J. G. Ballard
Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg. — Shannon Hale
You can only possess beauty through understanding it. — John Ruskin

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