Quotes About Limitation

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.

Everyone can make the wrong decision—in fact, everyone will sometimes make a wrong decision. But no one needs to make a decision which, on its face, falls short of satisfying the boundary conditions.

To exploit the opportunity for innovation offered by unexpected success requires analysis. Unexpected success is a symptom. But a symptom of what? The underlying phenomenon may be nothing more than a limitation on our own vision, knowledge, and understanding.

Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.

All metaphors limp.

Of course I am happy here! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!

I can only make one person happy each day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.

It's amazing the limitation of the human anatomy, the fact that food and air must share a common passage.

Não podemos conhecer a totalidade das respostas. Não nos é possível ver para diante, por nossa conta e risco

We made it up and then we were stuck with what we made up.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know

That box from which you cannot force your way out. That box in which a twelve-year-old was twelve years old forever.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly." -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

it is so unfair that he lives in ohio, because that should be close enough, but since neither of us drives and neither of us would ever in a million years say, 'hey, mom, do you want to drive me across indiana to see a boy?,' we're kind of stuck.

No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough

Infinity is against us, I told him. There's no way for us ever to count it or control it or understand it.

Intentar escribir sobre el amor es, en última instancia, lo mismo que intentar que un diccionario represente la vida. No importa cuántas palabras contenga, nunca serán suficientes.

Maybe this is what alone really is—finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else. I

Women's reproductive success has historically been limited not by the number of mates they can accumulate but, rather, by the genetic quality of a single mate, by his ability to accrue resources, and by his willingness to funnel those resources to her and her children. All modern women have inherited these mating desires from their successful maternal ancestors.

It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants

UNDER CONSTRAINTS, CREATIVITY THRIVES