Limitations Quotes

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Little boats should keep near shore

There is a limit to what you can do in politics.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

Expert knowledge is limited knowledge

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.

My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

As long as you are seeing 'what is', you cannot grow beyond it.

The reason artists show so little interestIn public freedom is because the freedomThey've come to feel the need of is a kindNo one can give them they can scarce attainThe freedom of their own material.

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

I never listen that you can't.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

Men must know their limitations.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.

We see only what we know.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

No one can keep you down but yourself

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.

I've been told that certain species of fish will grow according to the size of their environment. Put them in a tiny aquarium, and they remain small even at adulthood. Release them into a huge natural body of water, and they grow into their intended size. People are similar. If they live in a harsh and limiting environment, they stay small. But put them someplace that encourages growth, and they will expand to reach their potential.

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them.

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us - it's the spirit within us.

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.