Possession Quotes

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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that… — Karl Pearson
The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in a let-go. Or… — Rajneesh
My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children,… — Mark Ruffalo
I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of… — Yukio Mishima
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us… — Robert Louis Stevenson
When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of… — Henri Poincare
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.… — E. O. Wilson
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and… — Albert Camus
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. — Hilaire Belloc
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and… — James Bryce
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. — John Selden
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession. — Ben Jonson
What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon… — Woodrow Wilson
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. — Rabindranath Tagore
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The… — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless… — Charles Lapworth
A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not… — Louis Agassiz
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth. — Karl Popper

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