Quotes About Limitation

Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?"Read more in A Daughter's Worth Novel

Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?

To rely solely on logic is in essence to operate within a structure of limited knowledge and understanding

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

Fear is the highest fence.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

You're only limited by your lack of imagination and fear of appearing stupid.

If you think or fear too much, you can't get far!

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

The fact that we can't kiss our elbow helps us to realize that some things in life are very close to us, but still beyond our reach.

The fact that you cannot kiss your elbow is enough to make you realize that some things seem so close, yet they are beyond your reach.

nothing is more limited than vice. In that sense one can really use a common expression and say that one is always turning in the same vicious circle. "How

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

how we try to make sense of the world and of our place in it—it should be obvious that our approach is fundamentally limited in scope. This realization should open doors, not close them, since it makes the search for knowledge an open-ended pursuit, an endless romance with the unknown.

Despite its many virtues and its enduring presence, though, a good deal of religious conduct cannot be tolerated by enlightened societies. Herein lies the problem – some religious conduct deserves freedom and some requires limitation. Ridding society of religion is no answer, and therefore we must grapple with religion at its worst and its best.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

The world is full of worse than anyone has yet imagined, and there's only so much room.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

Beliefs create behaviors. The cumulation of those behaviors adds up to your entire life. Know what else? Every belief has a consequence. Your beliefs either heal you or harm you. They either support your aspirations or thwart them. Belief becomes the source of your limitation or your liberation. It doesn't matter what's true, it matters what you believe.

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we've hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.