Limitation Quotes

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. (Confucius)
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation. View quote
Ennio Morricone
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. View quote
Elihu Root
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. View quote
George Eliot
Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation. View quote
Bruce Lee
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. View quote
Margaret Mead
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. View quote
Richard Bach
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation. (Vanna Bonta)
The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing. View quote
Richard Bandler
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible. View quote
Georges Braque
There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months. View quote
Rick Santorum
It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe. View quote
John von Neumann
What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen. View quote
Norbert Wiener
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate. View quote
Camille Paglia
All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion. (Margaret Sanger)
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience. View quote
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation. View quote
Andrew Biersack
Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms. View quote
Gianfranco Fini