Admitting Quotes

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.

Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.

Everyone doubts themselves. It's just a matter of admitting it or not.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be wrong and you may be right and, by an effort, we may get nearer the truth."

There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.

The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.