Limits Quotes

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

~ Albert Einstein

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

~ Claude Chabrol

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

~ Gijs De Vries

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

~ Francis Bacon

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

~ Bernard Tschumi

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

~ Guy Davenport

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

~ Gretchen Rubin

When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. That's telling us that you really need a theory of everything to resolve this question. And the only candidate is string theory.

~ Michio Kaku

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

~ William S. Paley

If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.

~ Dan Webster

There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.

~ Guru Nanak

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

~ Michael Jordan

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

~ Pliny The Elder

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

~ Milan Kundera

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

~ Vanessa Paradis

Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.

~ Elliott Abrams

Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.

~ Andrew Solomon

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

~ Tim Berners-Lee

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

~ Rod Serling

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

~ Orison Swett Marden

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

~ Thomas Huxley

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

~ John Von Neumann

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

~ Ralph Merkle

One finds limits by pushing them.

~ Herbert Simon

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

~ Manmohan Singh

You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

~ Brian Eno

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

~ Andrew Johnson

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

~ Carine Roitfeld

Freedom without limits is just a word.

~ Terry Pratchett

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

~ Jack Kemp