Admitting Quotes

• Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Failure, Learning, Errors

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

  Doug Larson

  Friendship, Cat, Animal

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  A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Being Strong, Wisdom, Stay Strong

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Leadership”, p.18, David C Cook

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• While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

  Henry C. Link

  Leadership, Confidence, Motivation

  Henry C. Link (1945). “The Return to Religion”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.179, Tuttle Publishing

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• Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

  Simon Sinek

  Work, Helping, Flaws

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Sep 16, 2015

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• Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Firsts, Acquiring Knowledge

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• I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Enemy, I Hate

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

  Dale E. Turner

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Errors

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• Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Courage, Difficult

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.239, Penguin

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• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  Daniel Boone

  Inspirational, Confused, Confusion

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• Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stupidity, Design, Religion

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

  Thomas Nagel

  Reality, Objectivity, Tendencies

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Inspirational, Attitude, Acceptance

  Richard Saul Wurman (2009). “33: understanding change & the change in understanding”

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  We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 15, 2013

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• True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

  Simon Sinek

  Strength, Being Strong, Courage

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2012

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• First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Mistake, Faithful

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Zero, Humanity, Literature

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.161, e-artnow

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• At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Trying, Culture

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• The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Success, Cheating, Freedom

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• It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Love, Hurt, Philosophy

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 27, 2013

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• Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Expectations, Focus, Stupidity

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• If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Spiritual, Fear

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.521, Bantam

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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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