Possession Quotes

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. (Max Born)
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. View quote
William Hazlitt
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession. View quote
Vera Brittain
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. View quote
Pericles
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. View quote
Euripides
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. View quote
David O. McKay
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. (John Lennon)
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. View quote
William Hazlitt
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. View quote
Cicero
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
The possession of anything begins in the mind. View quote
Bruce Lee
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. View quote
Henry James
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. View quote
John Ruskin
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. View quote
Emil Cioran
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. View quote
Thomas Browne
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. View quote
Jane Austen
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. (Andrew Carnegie)
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. View quote
John Locke