“Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate,
Beneath the good how far,—but far above the great.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
III. 3, Line 16 <br class="br"> The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)
“Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.”
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress
“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
“Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Variant translation: Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
“That’s how it went, wasn’t it Zebra?”
Alastair Reynolds book Chasm City
“It might,” she said. “If I happened to be colluding in your own delusions.”
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 29 (p. 479).
Benjamin H. Freedman (1890–1984) American businessman
His opinion on the loyalty of Zionists to the United States
Willard Hotel speech (1961)
“To know your limits you need to go beyond them.”
Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
