“The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.” HumansSelfLimitsAchievementAddictionLife Wisdom Author:Denis Waitley
“When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.” HumansDifferencesAnimalDangerousLimitsMurderNotionCriticalAppetiteConsumerismGrossOverconsumptionHumans And Animals Author:Wendell Berry
“The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.” HumansLimitsTragedyInfiniteVainHuman LifeUnlimitedFiniteLadders Book:SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life
“Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.” PeopleHumansStillsUsedChallengesEnvironmentHugeKeysLimitsBirdOwnersChickensInteractionFlocksCulling Author:David Nabarro
“The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.” MenHumansPlayScienceUniverseForceEducationStudyIgnoranceHe ManActivityLimitsTrainingLettersAffairChecksLimitationOperationsContemplationSpiteProminentPassivityHuman FreedomHumanisticProdigious Book:Schools and Universities on the Continent Source: Schools and Universities on the Continent
“In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.” WorldHumansYoungDangerousSkillsLimitsEnglandFlyingFlightAustraliaAviationPushingEndurancePilots1930sMilitary Aviation Author:Mary Garden
“There are no limits on how much the heart can love, the mind can imagine, or the human being can achieve.” MindHumansHeartHuman BeingsImagineAchieveLimits Author:Lynne Cox
“It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.” HumansStatesShowsExerciseLimitsTendenciesHuman LifeDisputesGreat Power Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by the obviously unpremeditated words of a great biologist; Alfred Kuhn finished a lecture to the Austrian Academy of Science with Goethe 's words, "It is the greatest joy of the man of thought to have explored the explorable and then calmly to revere the inexplorable." After the last word he hesitated, raised his hand in repudiation and cried, above the applause, "No, not calmly, gentlemen; not calmly!” MenHumansRealHandsLastsJoyUnderstandingAttitudeYouthHe ManLimitsScientistRaisedFinishedGentlemanCriedImpressedLast WordsLecturesApplauseAcademyBiologist Author:Konrad Lorenz
“In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.” HumansLosesLimitsSightConstantBoundsHuman LifeMetamorphosis Author:Julia Ward Howe
“The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.” HumansFeltEffortConsciousnessLimitsFinalsObscurePretensionHuman Knowledge Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop himself out of himself, in true individuality, but in which physical nature, as well, need receive no other shaping by human hands than that which is given to her voluntarily by each individual, according to the measure of his wants and his inclinations, restricted only by the limits of his energy and his rights.” MenWantNeedsHumansWellsReasonHandsDesireIndividualEnergyGivenEnjoyRightsConditionsLimitsAbsolutesIndividualityInclinationHuman Hands Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt