We Possess Quotes
121 quotes by 108 authors
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
— John Cage
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity…
— George Santayana
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We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of…
— Emile Coue
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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right…
— Walter E. Williams
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We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess.
— Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard
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The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
— Michel de Montaigne
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In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The…
— Paulo Coelho
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We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.
— Harold S. Kushner
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When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He "quickens" us, that is to say, enlightens and enlivens the…
— Keith K. Hilbig
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Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to…
— Robert Breault
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It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not…
— Albertus Magnus
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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
— James Monroe
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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells…
— Teresa of Avila
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Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every…
— Daniel Libeskind
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Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values…
— Margaret Bondfield
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A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one…
— Charles Dickens
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We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth…
— Michel Foucault
Who Wrote These We Possess Quotes
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