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I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 12 likes | |
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 8 likes | |
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line — Oscar Levant, 1906-1972, American pianist 6 likes | |
In limitations he first shows himself the master, and the law can only bring us freedom. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 5 likes | |
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 5 likes | |
Whatever limits us we call Fate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 5 likes | |
To understand the limitation of things, desire them. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 4 likes | |
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 4 likes | |
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 4 likes | |
The best deals and the best sex happens outside of boundaries. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 4 likes | |
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 4 likes | |
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 4 likes | |
Here at the quiet limit of the world. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 3 likes | |
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes | |
Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 3 likes | |
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes | |
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 2 likes | |
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes | |
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes | |
Why, when God’s world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places? — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes | |
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. | |
Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom. | |
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. | |
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art. | |
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error. | |
Freedom without limits is just a word. | |
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. | |
Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist | |
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher | |
The difference between genius and stupidity is this: genius has its limits. | |
The worst wall of all is a door that you do not have the key to. | |
The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes. | |
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none. | |
A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 | |
The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther. | |
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. | |
Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit. |
Latin Quotes
No further. Ne plus ultra. (impassable obstacle) 37 likes |
Quotes in Verse
Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
Stupid Quotes
I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. — Donald Trump, 1946-, President of the USA 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
Do not try what is beyond your capability. Μη πλέω προσάπτεσθαι των δυνατών. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
Proverbs
Good fences make good neighbours. 4 likes |