Quotes About Limitation

We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.

I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn't. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Illness, especially chronic illness, can be very isolating. Not only does it limit how and when you can socialise, it causes you to feel unattractive.

I'm not immortal. I'm not unbeatable.

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Reason can go only to a certain extent, beyond that it cannot reach. The circle within which it runs is very very limited indeed. Yet at the same time, we find facts rush into this circle. Like the coming of comets certain things come into this circle; it is certain they come from outside the limit, although our reason cannot go beyond.

The majority of us cannot see beyond a few years, just as some animals cannot see beyond a few steps. Just a little narrow circle — that is our world. We have not the patience to look beyond, and thus become immoral and wicked. This is our weakness, our powerlessness.

If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be.

Why, if nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be!

Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.

Wszyscy s? jako? zadowoleni ze swoich miejsc, które im wyznaczy?o przeznaczenie i ?a?cuch genów. Wykonuj? skromnie, co im ka?e Wielka Entropia. A ja obra?am si? na los, na swoje ograniczenie, na Pana Boga. Pragn? czego?, czego nie mog?. Marz? o tym, czego nie b?dzie. Ton? w sze??dziesi?ciu litrach w?asnej truj?cej wody, ja, zdefektowany ssak dwuno?ny.

Even if a river flows with milk, a dog can take in only one lick at a time

There's more to life than you can see. Your sight is limited.

A guard is as much a prisoner as those he keeps from freedom.

I will program my mind to forbid itself from moving beyond its own reprogramming range.

Speaking this language would be out of the question, given the limited bandwidth of the human larynx.

Perhaps men were not meant to live in such a place. If their own natures restrained them from approaching heaven too closely, then men should remain on the earth.

Being in the special forces has really broken a lot of the limitations I thought I had. Thoughts like 'We've done this much, so we should take a break now' were ones that I had to ignore and overcome in my training. They taught me how to keep going, no matter how difficult a situation can get.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.