Finite Quotes

322 Finite quotes by 240 unique authors

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. — Garrett Hardin
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease. — Garrett Hardin
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in… — Thomas Huxley
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded… — Muhammad Iqbal
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also… — Naveen Jain
One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so… — Daniel Kahneman
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. — William Law
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's… — Elon Musk
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be… — Suze Orman
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine… — Blaise Pascal
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. — Karl Popper
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing… — Robert Smith
If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to… — David Suzuki
Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all… — David Suzuki
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. — Paul Tillich
Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite,… — Ted Turner
In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite… — Ellen G. White
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life… — Alfred North Whitehead
We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived. — Randy Pausch
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It… — Joseph Brodsky
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? — Woody Allen
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the… — H P Lovecraft

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