Limitations Of Knowledge Quotes

“I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one’s ability to abandon it.”
― Duop Chak Wuol

“What’s wrong with knowing what you know now and not knowing what you don’t know now until later?”
—Winnie the Pooh”
― Disney Book Group, Christopher Robin: The Little Book of Poohisms: With help from Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, and Tigger, too!

“You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don't give up too early.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, I Don't Know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance

“All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? Why should there not be something buried deep within appearances, something that wears a mask to hide itself behind the visibility of nature?”
― Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

“We humans, believe we know it all. When you think about the vastness of the universe, you begin to realise we know nothing other than the limitations of our own environment.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar, Creativity is Everything

“After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life and death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness and answer any question we are capable of asking. We cannot hold ten thousand words in short-term memory. We cannot see in ultraviolet light. And perhaps we cannot solve conundrums like free will and sentience.”
― Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works

“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!”
― Abhijit Kar Gupta

“For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.”
― George Lakoff

“The greatest weakness of a man ever is the limitation of his or her own thoughts.”
― Lord Robin

“The causes of every human action, Tolstoy thought, were so manifold, so complex, and so deeply hidden in unconscious motivations that it is impossible to know why anything ever happened. [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 233]”
― Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren