Mental Boundaries Quotes

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

I'm very much in a mindset that I take myself out of anything that I'm not involved in.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

It's so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

You can read minds, and you didn't tell me?” Link stared at me like he just found out I was the Silver Surfer. He rubbed his head nervously. “Hey, man, all that stuff about Lena? I was yankin’ your chain.” He looked away. “Are you doin’ it now? You're doin’ it, aren't you? Dude, get out of my head.” He backed away from me and into the bookshelf. “I can't read your mind, you idiot.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and the power of Perfidia is that it's the result of complete immersion. I was there for the two years that it took me to write that book.

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?