Quotes About Limit

I think it's a mistake to lose one's sense of death, even one's fear of death. Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit." I

Hic scientia finit: Knowledge Stops Here.

In walking with God, a man will go just as far as he believes, and no further.

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. -Author Unknown

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

You can fill a bucket with water but not water with a bucket.

who have shielded themselves from its risks—at the cost of limiting their pleasures.

Knowledge is useless unless you know where it ends.

First our desire for money is never satisfied. Our pursuit of money is infinite. We can never say: this is enough.... There is never any limit, since in order to set a limit or a stopping point, one would need self-control and wisdom. And if one had these at the outset, he would not have had such a passion for money.

Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced.

Je t'aime jusque là

The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, life to the limit.

DEFINITION 1-2. The set S has a topology (or is topologized) provided that, for every point p in S and every subset X of S, the question "Is p a limit point of X?" can be answered.

But I think five is on the low side.

I like it," Massey said, "but it would be nice to wrap this up. Go to seven, Layton, but that's all.

Sixty miles was pushing it, but feasible in good weather.

Sometimes I feel as though I were a diver who had ventured a little beyond the limits of safe travel under the sea and had entered the strange zone where one is said to enjoy the rapture of the deep.

there's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love.

Increasing values again brought increasing values. As with the canals and turnpikes, it was transportation, this time the railroads, that was the focus of the speculation. Here the horizons seemed truly without limit. Who could lose on what was so obviously needed?

If you could fold a piece of paper 51 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.

There is no limit to a woman's intelligence provided she is not required to be coherent. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.