Quotes About Admission

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

Yes, Valcour! Since he has gone beyond your reach, there can be no harm in admitting it.

It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.

People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance.

It was only recently that she was beginning to admit to herself how much it hurt to have to be fine.

Standing firm is great, kiddo, but so is admitting you made a mistake and fixing it.

It takes a truly great man to see that he's been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious.

Truth is, Dad, I don't blame Judge Parker," he said quietly. "I mouthed off pretty bad in court. He could've given me sixty days in jail, or even ninety. I've got no gripe with him. It was my own fault—all of it.

Not until 1992 did the Catholic Church admit publicly that it had erred in the matter of censoring Galileo's ideas.

Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.

Yeah, actually, I don't want to admit that I like 'Girls', but a girl I was dating a while ago got me to start watching 'Girls.' It's really well-written and I enjoy that.

That's part of my prerogative as a head coach is that I can change my mind because if I'm wrong, I'll admit it.

Sometimes when you're defending people, you have to admit there was something that's not quite right, and that preserves some credibility.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

I might love dancing more than I should admit. But not in public.

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.

I come from money. I'm not going to deny that.

But the problem is that you cannot just admit to something you haven't done; you need to deliver the details, which you can't when you haven't done anything. It's not just, Yes, I did!' No, it doesn't work that way: you have to make up a complete story that makes sense to the dumbest dummies.

I don't know how to make tea.

I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV.

There is not going to be any change unless we can begin to talk about any little fear, any little hatred, any little bias that we might have and to admit that all human beings have them.

I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.