Knowing limits Quotes

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Running taught me to have faith in my skills as a writer. I learned how much I can demand of myself, when I need a break, and when the break starts to get too long. I known how hard I am allowed to push myself.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

Lebanon is a small country, and we have a saying: as long as you know your size, you know, just try to protect what you have.

If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

While I enjoy it, I will continue to go onstage. While I contribute something, fine. I don't want to be dragging my feet. I don't want to become pathetic, but I think I will be lucid enough. I'll know when to stop.

You need to know when to surrender the album.

If I'm educated and passionate about a topic, I'll answer the question. But I also know when to shut the hell up.

For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.