Possession Quotes

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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I… — Albert Einstein
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that… — Albert Einstein
Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,… — Thomas Jefferson
All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had… — Mikhail Bakunin
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. — Mark Twain
The love of possession is a desease with them. — Sitting Bull
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an… — Albert Schweitzer
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He,… — James Burgh
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill… — Margaret Mead
The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace. — Janet Reno
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. — James Burgh
The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the Divine, from prayer,… — Rajneesh
Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible. — William George Jordan
The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be completely fulfilled without… — Rajneesh
A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children;… — Saint John Chrysostom
After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years,… — Anne Sebba
I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers. — Franz Liszt
A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and… — Edward Hirsch
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is… — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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