Quotes About Limitations

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

A life lived without borders is a life lived in captivity

So what else have they said you can't do and how many of those have you believed?

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.

In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

What prevents theoretical insights from going beyond existing limitations and changing to meet new facts is just the belief that theories give true knowledge of reality (which implies, of course, that they need never change).

Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.

The technology is useful and convenient, but it has, in the end, reduced its own value and increased the value of the things it has never been able to capture or reproduce.

Whenever we try to improve things and fail, it is not because the spiteful (or unfathomably benevolent) gods are thwarting us or punishing us for trying, or because we have reached a limit on the capacity of reason to make improvements, or because it is best that we fail, but always because we did not know enough, in time.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

Sometimes you cannot program around stupid.

This is the only boundary that nature herself imposes on us, the limitations on what we can accomplish, in space and time, with one body and one life.

and I discovered my limitations, and mainly I learned that there was a price to pay for that childhood (it turns out there's no such thing as a free starvation), and that in the meantime the world had filled up with other children who hadn't wasted all their strength on just surviving but had simply grown and opened and deepened, and that only in her innocent eyes could I still be considered worth anything.

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

Honest people recognize the limitations of their own knowledge. God's perfection does not extend to God's creatures.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.