Quotes About Limitation

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

In 1875, when young Max Planck announced his interest in physics, the chairman of his physics department suggested he study something more exciting. Physics, he said, was just about complete: "All the important discoveries have already been made.

In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.

Incarnation, the limitation of mind by matter, is an outrage to the imagination.

In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds.

God pity a one-dream man.

Our particular causality scheme has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations. But it is far inferior to what might have been, and may one day be.

Hiçbir uygarl?k, topluluktaki doÄŸumlar?n say?s?n? s?n?rland?rmadan y?ld?zlar aras? yolculuk çabalar?n?n üstesinden gelemez

What did she expect? It was like trying to visualize a new primary color or a world in which you could recognize several hundred acquaintances individually only by their smells... She could talk about this, but she couldn't experience it.

And the Sphinx broke its long silence: Don't expect too much.

Désirer, cela consiste à vouloir occuper un espace plus grand que celui qui vous est offert

Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for long." Again

We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less.

So much universe, and so little time.

It's amazing how people define roles for themselves and put handcuffs on their experience and are constantly surprised by the things a roulette universe spins at them.

There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words.

He was up against a mind that regarded truth as a reference point but certainly not as a shackle.

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.

Our skills, you will find, could be our jailers.

all freedom is limited, artificial, and therefore illusory, a shared hallucination at best. No sane mortal is truly free, because true freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes.

He ached all over. It wasn't just that his brain was writing checks that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions.

When one of us says, "Look, there's nothing out there," what we are really saying is, "I cannot see.

When one of us says, 'Look there's nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see.

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.