Admission Quotes - Page 2

• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  Quintilian

  Faults, Brilliant, Excellent

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1829, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Enthusiasm, Fees

  Kin Hubbard (1917). “Abe Martin's Back Country Sayings”

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• Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

  Stephen Covey

  Ignorance, Firsts, Steps

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.41, Mango Media Inc.

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• Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Brother, Rights

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

  Aldous Huxley

  Judgment, Wit, Guts

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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• No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strength, Perseverance, Years

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Philosophy, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

  Frederick Reines

  School, Technology, Encounters

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• The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Weakness, Sound, Morality

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• The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Men, Principles

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• Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Men, Weakness

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• ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

  Robert Sternberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

  George Edmund Street

  Light, Church, Towns

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• Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

  Max Lerner

  Art, Teenage, Fall

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

  Roy Romer

  Educational, College, Years

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• The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

  Groucho Marx

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Tongue

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.108, Da Capo Press

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• The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.

  Neal Asher

  Afterlife, Comforting, Vision

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan

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• It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors.

  David Hume

  Strong, People, Ignorant

  David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.130

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• To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Funny, Humorous, Insane

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Quality, Energy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.32

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• One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Honesty, World, Helpful

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• I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.

  Mike Huckabee

  College, Records, Return

  "Huckabee Wants To Know If Obama Got College Loans 'As A Foreign Student'". "The O'Reilly Factor", Fox News, www.mediamatters.org. January 20, 2012.

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• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

  John Sununu

  Growth, Enough Time, Cost

  First Speech by Anne Ruston as representative of South Australia, www.anneruston.com.au. October 10, 2012.

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