Limits Quotes

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

To define is to limit.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

Records are meant to be broken, I guess.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.