Barrier Quotes

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. (M. Scott Peck)
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not. View quote
Tom Perrotta
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. View quote
Christopher Dawson
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish. View quote
Yukio Mishima
As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept "God." View quote
Anthony de Mello
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man. View quote
Margaret Fuller
The price of freedom-of individuality-is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague. View quote
Greg Bear
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. (Will Durant)
If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines-the basis of life-developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach. View quote
Michael Behe
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. View quote
Helen Keller
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities." View quote
Helen Keller
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious. View quote
P. D. Ouspensky
Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! View quote
William Wordsworth
As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. View quote
Alberto Manguel
If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge. View quote
Max Stirner
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it. View quote
Vernon Howard
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics. (Naomi Klein)
Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy. View quote
Rick Riordan
To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished. View quote
Felix Baumgartner
If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism. View quote
Greg L. Bahnsen
Arafat was a barrier to peace. View quote
Chuck Schumer