#Limitation Quotes

“Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.”

“The field cannot be seen from within the field.”

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

“Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.”

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

“There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.”

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

“No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.”

“My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.”

“Those men that in their writings are most wiseOwn nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.”

“What can I but enumerate old themes?”

“Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.”

“He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.”

“One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.”

“Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.”

“We cannot wish for that we know not.”

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

“My greatness does not extend to this shelf.”

“Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.”

“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.”

“Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.”

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

“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.”

“Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.”

“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”

“Change can only be in the limited.”

“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.”

“All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.”

“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.”

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

“The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.”

“The truth is the river flows into the canyonOf Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.”

“Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.”

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

“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.”

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

“Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.”

“The body can feed the body only.”

“Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.”

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

“Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.”

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

“If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.”

“When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.”

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

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

“MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.”

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

“Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!”

“It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .”