Quotes About Limitation

I think it's a bit excessive.

One sock can't house two feet. If it does, it's of no use.

We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.

Saying "thank you" signifies sense of gratitude, but it also implies your incapability.

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

Authorities! Permits! Insurance! How I yearn for the days when a man could just bust loose, tear around and get what needs to be done, done.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

Seneca reminds us how small our bodies are and poses this question: "Is it not madness and the wildest lunacy to desire so much when you can hold so little?

Enough! or too much.

It appears that many people's concept of heaven is often limited to their physical conceptions of reality.

Dado que no puedes hacer lo que quieres, pregúntate qué puedes hacer».

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Great ships cannot sail in narrow rivers and shallow waters, neither can minds truly great with the knowledge of God and heaven, find room enough in the creature to turn and expatiate[12] themselves in.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.

The only way an actual infinite could come to exist in the real world would be by being created all at once, simply in an instant. It would be a hopeless undertaking to try to form it by adding one member after another.

In describing the causes of poverty, Muhammad Yunus has often compared a poor person to a bonsai tree. The seed of a bonsai has the potential to grow into a full-size tree, but, planted in a tiny pot, its growth is stunted. To Yunus, a person deprived of education or opportunity is like a bonsai. The constraint isn't the seed, it's the pot.

I feel as though I am swimming in an ocean of knowledge with but a teaspoon to consume it.