William Howard Taft Quotes

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

Creation is the highest form of Divinity, and your birthright. Truth is, you are creating all the time. The central question in your life is whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my mouth: "A good man needs to know his limitations."

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

It may or may not sound pretentious. But I've turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry.