Admitting Quotes

The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

There are so many people in the closet, and we are giving them an opportunity to come out of the closet and just admit they like to smoke.

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.

I don't really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you.

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

The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.

But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you wont deny.

The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.

The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).

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.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

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

I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.

Sometimes when you're defending people, you have to admit there was something that's not quite right, and that preserves some credibility.