Quotes About Limits

Because we're not free when there are no boundaries—we're in great danger.

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

What we need is boundaries, not barriers.

And if I spend resources I don't have, I will eventually bankrupt myself.

Where there is an abundance of chaos, there is usually a lack of good boundaries.

We depend upon cognitive assent and affective assurances to substantiate the reality of our relationship with God. If we can't "know" or "feel" God, we customarily doubt our relationship with God. But such "knowing" and "feeling" restrict God to the narrow limits of our minds and senses and reduce our relationship with God to the maintenance of such feedback.

When we protect our children from excessive control, outsized competition, and persistent academic pressure, and choose instead to commit to nurturing them with warmth, clear limits, firm consequences, and a delight in their potential and uniqueness, then our children are free to return to their essential task—the development of a sense of self, sufficiently robust to weather the inevitable ups and downs of a lifetime.

I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.

Patroclus. I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.

Patroclus. I have given enough to them. I will not give them this." After that, there was nothing more to say.

There I discovered at last the limits of my power. However potent the mixture, however well woven the spell, the toad kept trying to fly, and the mouse to sting. Transformation touched only bodies, not minds.

He got up and said, I think you've got something in you. I don't know. Women very rarely have. I mean most women just want to be good at something, they've got good-at minds, and they mean deftness and a flair and good taste and what-not. They can't ever understand that if your desire is to go to the furthest limits of yourself then the actual form your art takes doesn't seem important to you. Whether

Again, I had no feeling of the supernatural, no belief that this was more than another nasty twist in the masque, a black inversion of the scene on the beach. That does not mean I was not frightened. I was, and very frightened; but my fear came from a knowledge that anything might happen. That there were no limits in this masque, no normal social laws or conventions.

Contemporary culture rejects the idea of nature for the same reason it rejects the idea of God. Both set limits on the human will.

The human body was not meant for such abuse. After about six months they lost steam. They would cut back to fifteen hours a day, six days a week.

The business of philosophy is critique. It clarifies the limits of meaningful language. Science on the other hand consists of all true propositions. It studies the existence or nonexistence of states of affairs.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Nevertheless, the DARPA Robotics Challenge did what it was designed to do: expose the limits of today's robotic systems.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.

A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.