#limited

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. ↗

— George Santayana

#common #common sense #good #limited #nonsense

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#extent #few #history #known #languages

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#great #great talent #honesty #hypocrisy #limited

You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire! ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#going #gonna #good #heaven #hell

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me. ↗

— Rick Scott

#fiscal responsibility #freedom #government #i #limited

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles. ↗

— Mary Antin

#children #even #had #hundred #jewish

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. ↗

— William Thomas Green Morton

#decency #ethics #flaws #history #ironies

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#arises #aspect #ignorance #individualized #limited

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance. ↗

— Karel Capek

#came #everything #everything people #except #into