Awareness of Limitations Quotes

You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

The word "knowledge" itself, we like to break it down into two different words, "know" and "ledge." You've got to know the ledge. Know the limitation of things. Know where they go, know where they start from. We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. But everything is first based on something being known. Then, when it's known, then it can be manifested.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Defensively, I could be a lot better; my decision-making at times can be a bit poor.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

I admire people who know they can't sing. There are so many people out there who can't sing, but they think they can, so they sing a lot.

'Camp' sort of means you don't know what you're doing, and we know what we're doing.