Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them...

Know not to revere human things too much.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we become free of it. Whatever we fixate upon limits us because fixation makes us dependent upon something other than ourselves. Each time we let go of something, we experience another level of freedom.

Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

Life's too short so we should enjoy it without forget our limits.

Life without limbs? Or life without limits?

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

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Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

Love without limits; reverse the hate.

Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.

Love is never static, but always evolving. Love is simultaneously random and ordered, so intangible and yet a part of everything, and when we attempt to limit it or categorize it, we get into trouble.

Many imitate limits, not unlimited potentials.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Make your upper limit, no limit.

Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data, brought together in the full light of demonstration, and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual, who is limited. It would be useless to lay down a crystallized method for everyone to follow.

My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being.

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.