Quotes about Limitation

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

What numbers us imprisons us.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

The Philosopher says (Metaph. ii, 2) that "to suppose a thing to be indefinite is to deny that it is good." But the good is that which has the nature of an end. Therefore it is contrary to the nature of an end to proceed indefinitely. Therefore it is necessary to fix one last end.

It is precisely because He is omnipotent that for Him some things are impossible.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.