Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.
René DescartesTag: error will sin understanding limitations
Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman."
[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]
Tag: food sherlock-holmes cooking breakfast limitations cuisine scotch
I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: humanity sherlock-holmes supernatural humankind detectives limitations crime-solving
Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
E.A. BucchianeriTag: wisdom truth knowledge learning stupidity humility mankind philosophical limitations gadfly stupidity-of-man
Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.
Peter McWilliamsTag: limitations do-it-anyway
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom empowerment poetry vision literature pleasure understanding quotes thoughts limitations senses borders poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.
Mark LawrenceTag: growing-up limitations the-broken-empire tags-disappointment
... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.
Mortimer J. AdlerTag: reading work practicality limitations job
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
V.S. NaipaulTag: free-will freedom expectations peer-pressure limitations lack-of-vision
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTag: freedom personal-responsibility human-rights limitations personal-autonomy
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