Possess

Famous quotes containing the word possess:

“... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance—no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability—no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.”
—Maria Stewart (1803–1879)

“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)