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Quotes About Admission

the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.
~ Randy Pausch
All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.
~ Raymond Carver
I'm not a loose cannon. If I'm wrong, I say so.
~ Trevor Bauer
I don't know how to drive a car.
~ Javier Bardem
That's the charm of Deadpool. He's charmingly annoying, and he'll be the first to admit that.
~ Morena Baccarin
I'm obviously going to own up that I cheated and I got caught.
~ T.J. Dillashaw
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
~ Ira Glass
You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.
~ Atul Gawande
Admit that you're wrong- or that you've made a mistake.
~ Richard Carlson
My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years.' We clapped our hands red. No fundamentalist would ever say that. In practice, not all scientists would.
~ Richard Dawkins
Anyone would think to hear you two that I enjoyed it!' 'And didn't you?' probed Johnny with a pained smile as the cab went into a pothole. 'Didn't you enjoy outwitting him?' 'Just a little, a very little,' I admitted, unable to keep a huge grin from my face.
~ Julia Golding
A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and as she passed Brodick and Ramsey, she called out, You used trickery. Yes, I did, he admitted. Are you angry with me? She laughed again. I don't get angry. I get even. Unbeknownst to her, she had just recited the Buchanan creed.
~ Julie Garwood
You've already made your commitment to me when you admitted you loved me. Nothing else matters. I don't give a damn how complicated it all becomes. You're mine now. Do you honestly believe I'm ever going to let you go?
~ Julie Garwood
Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.
~ Rita Rudner
No man easily admits that he is afraid.
~ Tess Gerritsen
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
~ Will Rogers
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
~ William Blake
Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.
~ Owen Feltham
To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.
~ Mary Catherwood
Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.
~ Epictetus
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
~ Charles Spurgeon
There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
~ Epictetus