#Limitations Quotes

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

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

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

“Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.”

“Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations”

“All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle”

“The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

“...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.”

“There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.”

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

“Expert knowledge is limited knowledge”

“Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.”

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

“We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.”

“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.”

“Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.”

“You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.”

“'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.”

“Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.”

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

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

“But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.”

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

“Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.”

“I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.”

“The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.”

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

“Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.”

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

“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone”

“Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.”

“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.”

“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.”

“No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.”

“The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”

“The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.”

“No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”

“The computer is a moron.”

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

“Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back.”

“There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.”