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

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Miguel de Cervantes

The greatest possession is self-possession.
Ethel Watts Mumford

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
Henry Cabot Lodge

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
William H. Wharton

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 most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana

The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.
Jose Mourinho

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess

The possession of anything begins in the mind.
Bruce Lee

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Frederick Law Olmsted

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
George Richards Minot

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
Gilbert Highet

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Paul Dirac