Quotes About Limitation

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

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

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

MAN'S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

Could you bring back a man without a head? Not six times. Just once.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.