Admitting Quotations | Page 2

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

Everyone doubts themselves. It's just a matter of admitting it or not.

In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws they are admitting are somehow noble, or dysfunctional in an overly edgy, aesthetically pleasing way.

We are admitting it, we are the ones who did it.

Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.

What we saw today was not Saddam admitting guilt, but admitting to the fact that he acted in accordance with his official duties and powers.

Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

a real sense of arrogance. Loyalty and never admitting a mistake matters more than the truth. It has a Nixon feel to me.