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Quotes About Admission

The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.
~ Jack McDevitt
And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won't be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissimulation only if one tells the truth, only if one tells that one is telling the truth), still the text will remain indefinitely open, cryptic and parodying.
~ Jacques Derrida
Whether they are accepted or not isn't important. What is important is the act of apologizing, the act of admitting fault, the act of asking for forgiveness.
~ James Frey
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
~ James Gleick
quoting Tolstoy: "I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
~ James Gleick
We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that was selfish and that you knew would hurt someone else.
~ Clare-Hope Ashitey
I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.
~ Mary Karr
Asking forgiveness is not an admission of cowardice and of sin, It is to show that having inner peace is far more important than pride especially if they think that you have wronged them in any way.
~ Sun Fire Elements
Corruption is found everywhere. I admit there is some corruption in my staff - not me.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
A lot of the drawbacks, a lot of the difficulties that Uber has had, have been completely predictable, and they handled them poorly, so by their own standards they made a lot of mistakes, and I think that they would admit that.
~ Brad Stone
If I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong.
~ Stephen A. Smith
When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.
~ Ernest Gellner
No man easily admits that he is afraid.
~ Tess Gerritsen
My Apology dose not mean I am admitting my wrong doing and you are Right. It only means that I value our Relationship more than the pride and Ego.
~ the omani shed
even received a few requests that I send medicine, since none was available in the local pharmacies—an admission, unthinkable a few years ago, that all is not well in the much-vaunted health-care system.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
At the same time, she couldn't help but feel sad about his admission of a studied shallowness, a penchant for the one-dimensional. It made her long all the more for her midnight man. Eddie
~ Theresa Weir
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
~ Bob Woodward
I have no problem being wrong. I love it when somebody goes 'Channing you're wrong.'
~ Channing Frye
His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.
~ Nick Flynn
He'll admit to his feelings when he's in his cups. The valet nodded. That's true, ma'am. If we could get him drunk. Clara stifled a laugh. I am not certain I would want a man who has to be drunk to admit his love for me.
~ Nicola Cornick
The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows. The
~ Chuck Palahniuk