Mental Limitations Quotes

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

We are seldom as limited as we think we are.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

There is no place for little minds in a great work

Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. that's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. what's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

You will never go beyond the barriers in your own mind. If you think you can't do something, then you never will.

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our minds...

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.