Quotes About Limitation

Le poisson rouge ne peut ramener la complexité des océans à la quiétude de son bocal. (p.185)

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.

All of us react to our anxiety by "partializing" our world, by restricting our consciousness within narrow bounds, to areas that we can more or less control which provide us a sense of self-confidence.

I was eternally earthbound, a witness but no prophet.

We can't see around walls, we can't see heat or cold, we can't see electricity or radio signals, we can't see at a distance. It is a sense so limited that we might as well not have it, yet we have evolved to depend so heavily on it as a species that all other perception has atrophied.

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Instead we were cooped up like hapless chickens nesting on our disappointed hopes.

There's only so far we can step backward in one day

Creativity is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Creativity encircles the world." I am enough of a painter to draw freely upon my creativity.

Nothing is impossible because the only obstacle is you

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

One of the greatest threats to the impossible is the easily possible.

Your present circumstances may seem limited, but you are never limited by your present circumstances.

The only shores you will never reach in life are those you have allowed yourself to believe, were too far.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.

You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity.

Our knowledge is so limited that often we are not much better than an ape.

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

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.