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Quotes About Limitation

Apollo, who understands all mysteries, says also, "Nothing too much." He is knowledge, Theseus; but She is what he knows.
~ Mary Renault
We cannot even imagine all that God has suffered us not to do, not to be.
~ Unknown
We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I worry that we are even closer to the stripping away of complex thoughts when they do not fit the memory-enfeebling restriction on the number of characters used to convey them.
~ Maryanne Wolf
Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.
~ Masamune Shirow
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
Conversely, we do not need innumerable friends: according to the anthropologist Robin Dunbar, the human brain can only process approximately 150 interpersonal relations. This is known as Dunbar's number, and it's about the size of a small tribe.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
You Are the Universe But Society Teaches Limitation. Hovsep kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com
~ Unknown
Pero se está convirtiendo en un ordenador sin sistema operativo, en un teclado sin Enter, en un triste monitor de fósforo verde, en… —¡Marc!
~ Unknown
That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friends friends. Ever heard about Dunbar's number?' And then he had told her about a man called Roger Dunbar at Oxford University, who had discovered that human beings were wired to know only a hundred and fifty people, as that was the average size of hunter-gatherer communities.
~ Matt Haig
And death is the opposite of possibility.
~ Matt Haig
An impossibility is just a possibility you don't understand yet.
~ Matt Haig
Minds can't see what they can't handle. It's like how humans never see the second hand of a clock mid-tick.
~ Matt Haig
O imposibilitate este o posibilitate pe care inca nu ai inteles-o.
~ Matt Haig
Olmak istediÄŸim her ÅŸeyi olmam, yaÅŸamak istediÄŸim bütün hayatlar? yaÅŸamam mümkün deÄŸil. İstediÄŸim bütün yetenekleri geliÅŸtirmem mümkün deÄŸil. İstememin nedeni ne peki? Hayat?mda, olas? bütün zihinsel ve fiziksel deneyimlerin her bir rengini, tonunu ve her çeÅŸidini yaÅŸamak istiyorum.
~ Matt Haig
Death is the opposite of possibility.
~ Matt Haig
It occurred to me that human beings didn't live beyond a hundred because they simply weren't up for it. Psychologically, I mean.
~ Matt Haig
I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.
~ Matt Haig
Limited resources. Everything's a zero-sum game.
~ Unknown
In divine things we must not covet to know more than God would have us know; and he has allowed us as much as is good for us.
~ Matthew Henry
at what point does our reach exceed our grasp? And if we find that answer it may be worth thinking about the consequences of reaching that point.
~ Unknown
Nepovratno se ose?am kao besku?nik. Nije to sasvim loše, nemam obaveza ni ograni?enja, samo je pomalo prazno. Svejedno mi je kuda ?u po?i kada završim posao. Uvijek sam želio tu potpunu slobodu, a nikud ne polazim, nijednu mogu?nost ne iskoriš?ujem, niti zapravo znam kakve su. Hodamo bez cilja, tražimo se, a kad se na?emo, govorimo o ratu.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Language only felt infinite; instead, everyone swam through surprisingly narrow channels when they spoke or wrote.
~ Meg Wolitzer
The hardest thing in this world is finding out what you're capable of.
~ Megan Abbott