Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life that recognizes healthy limits, those that are concern to produce prosperity and order for the person who observes them.

The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making sure government cannot encroach.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language.

The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams.

The fears we don’t face become our limits.

The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.

The Good Lord hasn't done this well: He placed limits on everything, except on stupidity.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.

The grace of God is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.

The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.

The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be delimited by things. So when we speak of 'limits', we remain confined to limited things. The limit of the unlimited is called 'fullness.' The limitlessness of the limited is called 'emptiness.' Tao is the source of both. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.

The more you go to your limits, the more your limits will expand.

The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience.

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.