Limitation Quotes

“The limitations are what make it interesting. Having infinite possibilities is boring.”

“The water is wide, I can't cross o'er. And neither have I wings to fly.”

“Most of us have, at some time in our lives, been prisoners.”

“Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.”

“Power hath no limits but in circumstance.”

“The world is beautiful and is waiting for us to conquer it, but we are prisoners.”

“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.”

“Man is a prisoner of his own way of thinking, and of his own assumptions.”

“Even God cannot change the past.”

“Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation.”

“Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.”

“Nothing is more terrible than a gigantic conception without the means of execution.”

“The only limits are the ones you place on yourself.”

“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.”

“Reason must know the limitations of reason.”

“I love the idea of limitation. I think it’s really good for creativity.”

“Perhaps that's what I feel, an exhaustion of possibilities, a claustrophobia of Time.”

“There is no more important prerequisite to clear thinking in regard to economics itself than is the clear perception of its limitations.”

“There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.”

“Monetary policy is not a panacea.”