Admission Quotes

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. (Richard Feynman)
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. View quote
Julia Cameron
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. View quote
Cicero
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight. View quote
Robertson Davies
A judgment, for me is not the mere grasping of a thought, but the admission of its truth. View quote
Gottlob Frege
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. View quote
Henry Kissinger
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee. View quote
Banksy
Let him make this challenge: "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." View quote
Mike Huckabee
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. View quote
Quintilian
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. View quote
Joseph Addison
Majorities are of two sorts: (1) Communal majority and (ii) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door in a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of community majority are made by its own members born in it. (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar)
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. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
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. View quote
Aldous Huxley
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. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies. View quote
Richard Perle
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. View quote
J.R. Ward
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. View quote
Chaka Fattah
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward)
Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live. View quote
Eleanor Clift
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. View quote
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it. View quote
Mary-Louise Parker
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out. View quote
Roy Romer