Limitation Quotes

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

The body can feed the body only.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Politics is but a narrow field.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

What can I but enumerate old themes?

No one can transcend their own individuality.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.

Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

No concept is a carrier of life.

The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

That which has no limitations, has no form.

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.