Boundless Quote by Nicolas Chamfort Download Open image “Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.” — Nicolas Chamfort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boundless Capacity Human capacity Humans Knowledge Nature of man
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries. — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Every time someone tried to explain to me there are limits to what one man can do, I pointed to the boundless sky and… — Jaiprakash Gaur Copy Share Image
I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about sci-fi adventure.… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that one had… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
