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Quotes About Limitation

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
~ John Piper
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
~ John Powell
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
~ John Ralston Saul
The limitation of liberty is justified only when it is necessary for liberty itself, to prevent an invasion of freedom that would be still worse.
~ John Rawls
As long as you believe it is impossible, you will actually never find out if it is possible or not.
~ John Seymour
We all have beliefs and expectations from our personal experience; it is impossible to live without them. Since we have to make some assumptions, they might as well be ones that allow us freedom, choice and fun in the world, rather than ones that limit us. You often get what you expect to get.
~ John Seymour
There were just too many questions; the answers were one more thing being rationed to the survivors ...
~ John Shirley
The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
~ John Steinbeck
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
~ John Steinbeck
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.
~ John Steinbeck
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
~ John Stuart Mill
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
~ John Stuart Mill
Absolute perfection belongs not to man, nor to angels, but to God alone.
~ John Wesley
Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.
~ John Wesley
Sometimes my lack of memory (or, to put a positive spin on it, my surplus of forgetfulness) worries me, especially since it's not limited to my early childhood.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
A painting is never finished—it simply stops in interesting places. PAUL GARDNER
~ Ellen J. Langer
Basically, it often takes a positive mindset, positive thinking, positive speaking, positive action, proactive approach and reactive approach to emancipate oneself from limitations or restrictions. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Possibility/Impossibility is a matter of one's mindset. For, if you often think that you can do anything, then you can and will. But, if you do think that you cannot, then you cannot and will not (period). Thus, always have a positive mindset and never a negative aspect of it. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
~ Emil Cioran
De sute de ani, omenirea prive?te cerul printr-o gaur? de tun.
~ Emil Cioran
Man is free, save for his depths.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Since there can only be a limited number of ways to face the ultimate problems, the mind is limited in its expansion by that natural boundary which is the essential, by that impossibility of indefinitely multiplying the capital difficulties: history is solely concerned with changing the aspect of a sum of questions and solutions.
~ Emil M. Cioran
In an ordinary despotism, the powers of a despot are limited by his bodily capacity, and by the calls of pleasure; he is but one man; there are but twelve hours in his day, and he is not disposed to employ more than a small part in dull business; he keeps the rest for the court, or the harem, or for society.
~ bagehot walter vii
Space has failed us, and we must be unmeaningly brief.
~ bagehot walter xviii