Quotes about Limitation
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
— Oscar Wilde
That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence."
— Charles Martin
Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.
— Karl Barth
The modesty that theology needs is the recognition that we cannot rationally comprehend God.
— Hans Boersma
Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them.
— Oscar Wilde
The cross means the acceptance of limitation on desire. Without establishing this for yourself, there can only be frustration and worse, for you simply cannot satisfy desire.
— Dallas Willard
A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
— Mike Pence
That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.
— William Faulkner
Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.
— William Golding
Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.
— William James
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.
— Henry Ford
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
— Hippocrates