No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time
If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!
The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.
What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.
Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
The mind is smaller than the eye.
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'
We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories, the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we've made up, are the truth.
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.
My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.
If your thinking is limited, your life will be limited.
The imagination has its limits, and you have to face up to that.
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind
Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.
People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.
Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.
Monotony reveals our limitations.
When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.
