Quotes About Omission

One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While

It's hard to say whether she's comfortable with her blend of distortion and omission, its willfulness, in fact; but she is accustomed to it. And it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate beds, greedy for the substance of their own lives, but obliged every day to reinvent themselves.

As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'

It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.

It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful. CHAPTER XXV

Sins of omission, Louis said. You don't believe in sins. I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

When any new language design project is nearing completion, there is always a mad rush to get new features added before standardization. The rush is mad indeed, because it leads into a trap from which there is no escape. A feature which is omitted can always be added later, when its design and its implications are well understood. A feature which is included before it is fully understood can never be removed later.

I would often rather read what a famous author has cut from one of his works than what he has let stand.

Como a maioria das pessoa desse mundo, a minha maldade é meio que um a maldade passiva, uma maldade por omissão, por não fazer nada porque não me importo com ninguém o suficiente pra intervir e tal, com exceção das pessoa que eu conheço bem . Por que não consigo me importar com todo mundo do jeito que me importo com quem eu conheço?

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

People forget what they want to forget.

And the Black Swan is what we leave out of simplification.

All you need is the wisdom to not do unintelligent things to hurt yourself (some acts of omission) and recognize favorable outcomes when they occur.

do not seem to be taken into account.

La culpa no es de las leyes de la física, sino del sencillo hecho de que, a veces, lo que los modelos dejan fuera es más importante que lo que incluyen.

The sermon passed into the general confession, and Phryne admitted with perfect frankness that she had done those things which she ought not to have done and left undone those things which she ought to have done.

that's a pretty big lie by omission

From the teaching of science the Negro was likewise eliminated. The beginnings of science in various parts of the Orient were mentioned, but the Africans' early advancement in this field was omitted.

In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial.

By action, by omission of action, people sacrifice other people all the damn time.

Freud's warning that what I omit without thinking (i.e. without conscious thought) may be the key to the deepest truth about me?

I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.

Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.