Quotes About Limitation

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

You can never go further than your own thoughts.

The only thing limiting you is yourself.

Enough is never enough.

Our awareness about ourselves and the world around us is so limited that we are ready to destroy ourselves. For the survival of humanity, an evolution of consciousness is essential.

When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.

Time is rarely the limiting factor -- more so, structure often is.

I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.

Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.

Religion is an outcome of the human weakness, or The limitation of human knowledge, or the fear.

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

Life is a prison in which we find ourselves.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

If you think you can't, you're right.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.