Quotes About Limitation

The truth, or rather, reality is far from any human can ever reach.

You cannot define anything that is beyond your sight and imagination.

It is more comfortable to think about all we might do instead of working to achieve what we can do.

there is no such thing as a god's-eye view (by which would be meant a Deist god's-eye view) available to human beings, a point of view which is no human's point of view.

The implication of this is that the mind's possibilities are limited by its concept of its potential.

You can run," Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, "but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.

There is one—how would you put it—loophole." "Loophole? More like a giant cavern if I have wings.

I don't have empathy, Sahara. I can't feel for those who are going to die. It would be akin to asking a falcon to take flight when his wings had long been hacked off.

I wanted to believe that Makandal flew away, but my wishes can't fly freely so. They're rooted to the ground like me, who eats salt.

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

Reductionism is like a kid who argues that whatever does not fit into his toy box is not a toy.

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

Small places make for small lives

You can ask me for anything you like, except time

Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

You write to me that it's impossible; the word is not French.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

One must never ask more from fortune than she can grant.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, would be to be a god.

I will take away your means of escape.

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

Armies, like human beings, are not capable of what is not in them.