Limit Quotes

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.[E ‘l termine d’una cosa è principio d’un altra.]

The limited circle is pure.

That which has no limitations, has no form.[Quel che non à termine non à figura alcuna.]

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

No one knows better than I the bitter denials of life. But I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

It has been a happy life. My limitations never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times. But it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. Then, the wind passes, and the flowers are content.[Also known as:]I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.