Quotes About Limitation

The most important of all limitations on knowledge – creation is that we cannot prophecy: we cannot predict the content of ideas yet to be created, or their effects. This limitation is not only consistent with the unlimited growth of knowledge, it is entailed by it.

If something is permitted by the laws of physics, then the only thing that can prevent it from being technologically possible is not knowing how.

the assumption that progress in a hypothetical rapacious civilization is limited by raw materials rather than by knowledge.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity

A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

We can imagine the impossible, provided we do not imagine it in perfect detail and all at once.

If God is indeed omnipotent, is he then capable of creating something more intelligent than himself?

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

Our limitation is God's opportunity

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

Limit your thinking and expectation today to only the things God can do.

If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.