Top 100 Quotes About Finite
#1. If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.
Jodi Picoult
#2. Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.
Bill Gates
#3. Reality is infinite and we are finite and so there is a necessary mismatch between our knowledge of the world and the world itself.
Rebecca Goldstein
#4. My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions. Because mental energy is a finite quantity.
Alexa Von Tobel
#5. Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
Sri Aurobindo
#6. One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?
Kelly Williams Brown
#7. But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth I have lost all respect for time - I am commencing to doubt that such a thing exists other than in the weak, finite mind of man.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#8. Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.
Leopold Kronecker
#9. Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
Beau Willimon
#10. There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
J. William Fulbright
#11. Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
E. E. Cummings
#12. Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.
Lily Dougall
#13. The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.
Joyce Carol Oates
#14. So while a thing in a finite time cannot come in contact with things quantitatively infinite, it can come in contact with things infinite in respect of divisibility: for in this sense the time itself is also infinite.
David Foster Wallace
#15. Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.
Van Jones
#16. Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#17. The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself ... Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.
Louise J. Kaplan
#18. Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
Hannah More
#19. At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#20. I get scared because things are finite, and I don't want them to be finite with you.
J.J. Johnson
#22. Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
Carl Sandburg
#23. It is our predicament that we live in a finite world, and yet we behave as if it were infinite.
Naomi Klein
#24. Dulia is like a high but finite number; hyperdulia is like the highest number out of a finite number of finite numbers; latria is like infinity.
Peter Kreeft
#25. Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
Rose Tremain
#26. Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.
Frederick Lenz
#27. The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.
Larry Fessenden
#28. Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings about the way some guy fucked her and didn't call. But I don't believe in a finite economy of empathy; I happen to think that paying attention yields as much as it taxes.
Leslie Jamison
#29. Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.
Sturgill Simpson
#30. Is truth then a nothing, simply because it is not spread out through space either finite or infinite?" Then from afar you cried to me, "By no means, for I am who I am.
Augustine Of Hippo
#31. You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
J.D. Salinger
#32. The nonappearance of cheerfulness in the lives of good people is finite.
Darmie Orem
#33. In another sense he is "being itself," in that he is the inexhaustible source of all reality, the absolute upon which the contingent is always utterly dependent, the unity and simplicity that underlies and sustains the diversity of finite and composite things.
David Bentley Hart
#34. The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise Pascal
#35. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. Suffering is Finite, but I feel infinite.
Stephen Chbosky
#36. The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself
to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.
Laozi
#37. We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.
Jeremy Grantham
#38. Sometimes, rather than just think about it, we need to feel about it. The intellect is limited or finite, while intuition connects to a sea of unlimited consciousness that expands far beyond time and space (as we know it).
T.F. Hodge
#39. You have a finite number of toothpaste tubes you will ever consume while on this planet. Make the most of that clean tooth time. For yourself.
Felicia Day
#40. Just as Alexander wept upon learning he had no more enemies to conquer, finite players come to rue their victories unless they see them quickly challenged by new danger. A war fought to end all wars, in the strategy of finite play, only breeds universal warfare.
James P. Carse
#41. All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea. Ideas and concepts in this world, in our lives, and in our imagination are much more finite than any of us would care to believe.
Connor De Bruler
#42. I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.
Francis Lawrence
#43. Listen." I tugged at my neighbor. "Just listen to me! You must-you must give me an answer: out there, where your finite universe ends! What is out there, beyond it?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#44. Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate.
C.S. Lewis
#45. Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
Christian Morgenstern
#46. One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
Daniel Kahneman
#47. I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
Neil Armstrong
#48. History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)
Kat Georges
#50. Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial grief dividing and multiplying till its weight is the weight of the world. Bacteria: agents of putrefaction. My father's decay lodged in me.
Jeanette Winterson
#51. The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system . We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.
Donella Meadows
#52. Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
James C. Maxwell
#53. Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.
Jim Whitehurst
#54. Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?
Marian Keyes
#56. If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.
Jonny Greenwood
#57. We Christians must build all of our thinking in every area on the Bible. We must start with God's Word, not the word of finite, fallible man. We must judge what people say on the basis of what God's Word says - not the other way around.
Ken Ham
#58. We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.
Frederick Lenz
#59. Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#60. Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country ... and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around it. But one thing I do know: Jesus is expecting me, and He's prepared a place for me.
Greg Laurie
#61. [Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their 'to do' list.
Jon Edgell
#62. The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'
Doron Zeilberger
#63. Those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.
Aristotle.
#64. Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.
Stephen Hawking
#65. The finite forms have fallen away and we have become God.
Frederick Lenz
#66. Like the quality of mercy, the prompting of compassion is not finite, and can be self-replenishing.
Christopher Hitchens
#67. The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#68. The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and clarity of your finite mind and your ability to access your infinite mind.
Frederick Lenz
#69. The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.
B.J. Novak
#71. If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed. I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination.
Freeman Dyson
#72. The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.
Human Angels
#73. The lexicon of language, then, is a finite set of terms that by metaphor is able to stretch out over an infinite set of circumstances, even to creating new circumstances thereby.
Julian Jaynes
#74. Any philosophy, no matter how perfect, works only for a finite period.
Amish Tripathi
#76. Anybody that's asked, I've counseled that they not expand Medicaid eligibility. I've been critical of any expansion because you know what Washington does. It promises something for a finite period of time, and then it leaves you on the hook.
Tom Price
#77. Drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal
round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,
within I am awake
repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread
forced by being to watch the birth of suns
Frank Bidart
#78. We have an infinite ability to make an impact but we have a finite time here to make a difference and to leave some sort of legacy
Thomas Narofsky
#79. There are an infinite number of good books, and only a finite amount of time in which to read them.
Victor A. Davis
#80. Everybody has a finite amount of energy and limits to what he or she can do. Listen to your body. It will talk to you if you're willing to listen.
Phyllis George
#81. Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.
Salman Rushdie
#82. Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.
Mark Waters
#83. When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.
Joanna Lumley
#84. Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.
Michael Nesmith
#85. God is simply a magnificent state of the mind, where the finite turns infinite.
Abhijit Naskar
#86. Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.
Cassandra Clare
#87. We are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite.
Ilyas Kassam
#88. God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
Henry James
#89. Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.
Timothy Keller
#92. We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.
Herman E. Daly
#93. If we had more Spiritual teachers around, then perhaps more people would be educated about the inadequacy of the finite to satisfy the Infinite. Physical things come and go; your everlasting soul is forever.
Christopher Sartain
#94. But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.
Herman E. Daly
#95. Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.
Julianna Baggott
#96. Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#97. I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look carefully at how many projects I want to put into my lifetime.
Peter Zumthor
#98. Finite games can be played within an infinite game, but an infinite game cannot be played within a finite game.
James P. Carse
#99. The laws of nature tell us there's a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that's going to run out. And if we're smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.
Mark Ruffalo
#100. All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.
Robert Browning
