Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

I have trouble admitting I'm wrong.

The confession of one man humbles all.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

I'm incredibly naive.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

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

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.

There are two things people in public life don’t like to say. First is ‘I made a mistake’, and second is ‘I don’t know.’

If one doesn't know his mistakes, he won't want to correct them.

I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.

You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing.

It's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong.

It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.

I'm not going to sit here and say I know everything about everything. I definitely have work to do. The thing is, I'm willing to admit that.

I've screwed up a lot, but I've always admitted it.

If you know you've been out of order, then you must tell the truth.

Have I made mistakes? Yes, I have. And I admit those.

Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.