Quotes About Limitation

The information processing model suggests that there is a limit to the amount of focused mental activity we can engage in at one time.

Mothers,fathers,our kind,tell me again that death doesn't matter.Tell me it's just a limitation of vision ,a fold of landscape,a deep flax-and-poppy-filled gully hidden on the hill, pleat in our perception a somersault of existence,natural,even beneficent even a gift,the only key to the red-lacquered door at the end of the hall,"water within water," those old stories.

We find ourselves only by looking to what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

Ferguson closed his eyes, paused for a long moment, and then turned to her and said: The best thing about being fifteen is that you don't have to be fifteen for more than a year.

Blue sky beyond barbed wire I wish I were sky.

I rationalized that there are only so many notes and therefore only so many combination of notes, so it stood to reason that there are so many songs.

It does not lie within man's power to gain more than a glimpse of this diviner life.

As much as we try to make sense of our lives, there are things that we simply aren't able to understand.

O coração do homem é minúsculo, mas aspira a coisas imensas. Não é suficientemente grande para o jantar de um cão, mas o mundo inteiro não é suficientemente grande para ele.

A useful guideline is to limit to three the numbers in a sentence—three seems to be all the reader's brain can

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit, but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

Man would have been too happy, if, limiting himself to the visible objects which interested him, he had employed, to perfect his real sciences, his laws, his morals, his education, one-half the efforts he has put into his researches on the Divinity.

Without the voice, hands, and feet of a human being, an evil spirit is limited in what it can accomplish.

there had to be more than Louisa would ever see in her life! And when you took into account

Balzac clearly is haunted by these Faustian figures, who seek to go beyond what is permitted to ordinary humans, only to reach an impasse where their very medium of expression is blocked or destroyed.

It is a shame that we so quickly lose that ability to believe in things; it limits the opportunities we have to transform ourselves, to save ourselves, for it puts the awful burden of transforming and saving ourselves on ourselves. Once you stop believing, you cannot pray, or make sacrifices or pilgrimages, or light candles. You are stuck with yourself, in a world without miracles.

Las traducciones son meras aproximaciones subjetivas. Y eso es todo lo que experimento respecto a cuanto digo: no es lo que estoy pensando sino lo máximo que puedo aproximarme a lo que pienso por medio del lenguaje, con sus defectuosas y constrictivas reducciones. Y por eso a menudo pienso que es mejor no decir nada que expresarme de una manera inexacta.

I think part of what it means for God to "reveal" himself is to keep us guessing, to come to terms with the idea that knowing God is also a form of not knowing God, of knowing that we cannot fully know, but only catch God in part—which is more than enough to keep us busy.

Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness?

Time travel is pure bullshit, impossible; nobody can defeat causality or entropy.

Fermat wrote in the margin: "I've discovered a truly wonderful proof for this argument. Unfortunately, this margin is too narrow to contain it." Two