limits quotes

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

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

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

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

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

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

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

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.