Quotes About Limitation

If bravery is the wind that makes us soar like kites, fear is the string that keeps us from going too far.

Technology is limited", Jason said, "Only the mind is infinite.

Progress was taking nature and putting a box around it.

Instead, he gripped her forearm. "Why, Jasnah? Why have you always denied me?" "Other than the fact that you are a detestable buffoon who achieves only the lowest level of mediocrity, as it is the best your limited mind can imagine? I can't possibly think of a reason.

No is the wildest word we consign to the language

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves for change is limited.

For the amount of real capital at any moment (as distinguished from monetary tokens run off on a printing press) is limited. What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

The quickest way to detect error in analogy is to carry it out as far as it will go—and further. Every analogy will break down somewhere. Any analogy if carried out far enough becomes absurd.

He goes very far, but it's quite possible he doesn't go far enough.

We may sometimes point out a road we are unable to follow.

Se sou inumano é porque meu mundo transbordou de suas fronteiras humanas, porque ser humano parece uma coisa pobre, triste, miserável, limitada pelos sentidos, restringida pelas moralidades e pelos códigos, definida pelos lugares-comuns e 'ismos'. (Trópico de Câncer)

This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can't grasp it.

Behind the world is chaos. Each word a stripe, a bar, but there are not and never will be enough bars to make the mesh

Self is the only prison which can contain.

But my hand was too small to do the gathering. [Epic of Gilgamesh, p. 79]

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

I cannot say yes to too many things. I am better off giving attention to one thing at a time.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.