Quotes About Limitation

Wenn dein einziges Werkzeug ein Hammer ist, wirst du jedes Problem als Nagel betrachten.

all I have to do is extend my hand but I can't run that far.

Do you really think the munificence of the multiverse comes translatable for your little mind? Have you ever thought to consider all that you miss whenever you're shown what is suited to your seeing?

An echo, while implying an enormity of a space, at the same time also defines it, limits it, and even temporarily inhabits it.

At the same time, in an attempt to calm Arab fears, he approved a proposal from Samuel that Jewish immigration would henceforth be limited by the 'economic capacity' of Palestine to absorb the newcomers.

Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

But there's a big difference between "impossible" and "hard to imagine." The first is about it; the second is about you!

Perhaps he kept surprising her, she pondered, because she was limiting him in her mind.

Traveled a considerable distance, and would have gone to the Pole, but my matches run short and I couldn't get a smoke (Dangerous work: Dairy of an Arctic Adventures)

Sencillamente no me gusta tener delante de mí lo que no puedo alcanzar.

It was simply because, as a doctor, I don't believe a drug should be taken for anything that is just uncomfortable or self-limiting.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

Natura se amuza citeodata formind combinatii caraghioase. Sint unii care-ntr-una casca ochii la nimicuri si rid ca papagalii in fata unui simplu cintaret din cimpoi; iar altii au o infatisare asa de posomorita, incit nici macar n-ar suride auzind o gluma buna. Nu s-a spus adesea ca, in fond, spiritul cel mai limitat este cel mai fericit?

every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin;

Moreover, she is intellectually short-sighted, for although her intuitive understanding quickly perceives what is near to her, on the other hand her circle of vision is limited and does not embrace anything that is remote; hence everything that is absent or past, or in the future, affects women in a less degree than men. This is why they have greater inclination for extravagance, which sometimes borders on madness.

What does the absolute mean? Something that is, and of which (under pain of punishment) we dare not ask further whence and why it is. A precious rarity for professors of philosophy!

We are not omniscient or all-powerful. Even enhanced by technology, our physical and mental powers are limited.

because of the previous damage, it couldn't safely be done.

When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no true face can emerge.

It's a curse, you know, to be able to look higher than you're allowed to reach.

Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals -- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government -- that it is not a charter _for_ government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection _against_ the government.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine that attacked (or "limited") reason, which did not also preach submission to the power of some authority.

One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.