limitations quotes

Arthur Schopenhauer: 

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Blaise Pascal: 

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Blaise Pascal: 

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Elbert Hubbard: 

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Elbert Hubbard: 

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and evey man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard: 

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Helen Keller: 

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller: 

I seldom think of my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonnair and social; reform is individual and imperious.
The Conservative


Rollo May: 

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Sharon Welch: 

Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges ... [A Feminist Ethic of Risk]