Quotes About Limits

we must listen to the very limits of human knowledge and only when this utterly breaks down should we refer things to God."45 William

Cuando decimos que una cosa es infinita, significamos solamente que no somos capaces de abarcar los términos y límites de la cosa mencionada, con lo que no tenemos una concepción de la cosa, sino de nuestra propia incapacidad

Mr Flosky suddenly stopped: he found himself unintentionally trespassing within the limits of common sense.

Je crois que l'humanité commence là où les gens sans génie figurent qu'elle s'arrête.

Coercion from outside, strong temperamental inclinations and passions within ourselves, do nothing to effect the essence of our freedom. They simply define its action by imposing certain limits on it.

It is easier to accept your limits if you have a biblical view of success. The world defines success in terms of what a person possesses, controls, or accomplishes. God defines success in terms of faithful obedience to his will. The world asks, 'What results have your achieved?' God asks, 'Were you faithful to my ways?

The words of an old hymn come to mind: But we make His love too narrow By false limits of our own; And we magnify His strictness With a zeal He will not own. For the love of God is broader Than the measure of the mind; And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. --—Frederick William Faber 1814-1863

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

We respond to societal issues with quick technical fixes that address symptoms rather than with systemic solutions. As a consequence, we are hitting the limits to symptom-focused fixes—that is, limits to solutions that respond to problems with more technological gadgets rather than by addressing the problems' root causes.

Por ello, la psicología parte del supuesto de que la mente no puede ni constatar ni demostrar la existencia de aquello que se encuentra fuera de sus fronteras.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves

The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.

the phrases used by Csikszentmihalyi to describe what generates flow include notions of stretching your mind to its limits, concentrating, and losing yourself in an activity—all of which also describe deep work).

En de?erli anlar, genellikle ki?inin zor ve mühim bir i?i ba?armak için harcad??? istemli çaba esnas?nda bedeninin ve zihninin s?n?rlar?n? zorlamas?ndan do?ar. Csikszentmihalyi bu zihinsel durumu ak?? [flow] olarak adland?rd?. Bu bulgu, istirahatin insan? mutlu yapt??? yönündeki genel geçer kabule de ayk?r?yd? ayn? zamanda.

those familiar with the rigors of such activities, the limit expands to something like four hours, but rarely more.

Every kind of power has its own boundaries, Etienne. That is you know its strength and its form.

cada cual llega hasta donde puede y los demás le dejan y a ti se te permite vivir, ¿te parece poco?

Three of the most important factors in determining to what degree a government's power will be controlled or uncontrolled therefore are: (1) the relative desire of the populace to impose limits on the government's power; (2) the relative strength of the subjects' independent organizations and institutions to withdraw collectively the sources of power; and (3) the population's relative ability to withhold their consent and assistance.

That's where both the Fae and the dragons fail......."They are defined either by narrative or reality. They don't go beyond that. The only person who can ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

How much human life can we absorb?" answers one of Facebook's founders,

Sola scriptura both set and limited the terms for discussing slavery and gave apologists for the institution great advantages.

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.