Best perfection & limits Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”

Inspirational Moments Principles Practice Expression Limits Perfection Compromise Imperfect Practise Perfection And Imperfection

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds. But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.”

Reality Seems Certain Values Felt Religious Conditions Stage Divine Limits Perfection Bounds Accepted Festivals Novelty Convenience Eccentric Predecessors Profane Melodrama Irresponsibility

Author:Laura Riding

“They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Hands Would Be Lost Loses Perfect Behinds Gone Generations Century Limits Gains Perfection Improvement Invention Great Men Reaching Receiving Lag

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”

Men Enough Work Acceptance Limits Perfection Insight Limitation

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.”

Firsts Numbers Special Limits Perfection Fairness Unification Oddness Triads Proportionality Special Beauty

Author:Iamblichus

“Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.”

Numbers Limits Perfection

Author:Richard Bach

“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition

“There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.”

Ideas Shows Purpose Awareness Limits Perfection Unlimited

Author:Richard Bach

“Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.”

Reality Perfect Atheism Limits Perfection Bounds Setting Settings Strict Magnitude

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.”

Ifs Knows Wells Art Self Artist Achieve Advice Proud Limits Achievement Perfection Be Proud Self Confident

Author:Barbara De Angelis

“Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind. Every drop has the whole of the ocean in it. That is the mind of man. The Indian mind reflects upon these [powers and potentialities] and wants to bring [them] all out. For himself he doesn't care what happens. It will take a great length of time [to reach perfection]. If it takes fifty thousand years, what of that!”

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence. We had somehow understood and felt that all the musicians who would come to the House later on, that all the singers, the big artists, were striving for excellence in their life and we thought a house for them, there’s no limit to the excellence it should have because it should match their strive for perfection”

Should Moments Bigs Artist House Felt Doubt Limits Musician Understood Perfection Should Have Excellence Strive Singers Here And There Striving For Excellence

Author:Jørn Utzon

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