Limits Quotes
2452 quotes by 1787 authors
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree…
— Andrew Jackson
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It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to…
— Deepak Chopra
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Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and…
— David Hume
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... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open…
— David Hume
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Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be…
— Dan Barker
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The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.
— John C. Maxwell
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from…
— Vladimir Lenin
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A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is no room for dictating taste in the diverse and dynamic world of media. To limit taste only limits the role we play for…
— Lachlan Murdoch
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When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the…
— William J. Clinton
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When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to…
— William J. Clinton
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...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and…
— James Madison
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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