“A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“The man who knows his limitations, has none.”
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
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Maxim no .1.
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Our Relation to Others, § 23
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Tout homme a vu le mur qui borne son esprit.
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Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Quoted by George Bernard Shaw in a letter to Ellen Terry, 25 September 1896.
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Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 11
“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.”
Alphonse de Lamartine book Méditations poétiques
Méditations Poétiques (1820), Sermon 2
