Admitting Quotes - Page 9

• The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.

  Thomas Nagel

  Reality, Views, World

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

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• Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.

  Frank Warren

  Thinking, Talking, Secret

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• Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Education, Mother, Sex

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1845). “Letters to Mothers”, p.16

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• The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.

  David Deida

  Letting Go, Sex, Giving Up

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• A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

  Robert Ruark

  Honestidad, Hombres, Errores

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• Si yo era poeta, lo había llegado a ser porque la poesía, más intensamente que ninguna otra práctica, no podía eludir su anacronismo y su marginalidad y, por tanto, constituía una especie de reconocimiento de mi propia ridiculez, admitiendo mi mala fe de buena fe, por así decirlo.

  Ben Lerner

  Practice, Kind, Speak

  Ben Lerner (2012). "Saliendo de la estación de Atocha", p.58, Granta Books.

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• I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses' asses. I know I'll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Mistake, Stupid

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• There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

  Greg McKeown

  Mistake, Shame, Should

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.

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

  Amy Lee

  Comfort, Chaos

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2010

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• I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when plots, blockades, and interventions made them lose their heads. All evidence indicates that revolutionary tribunals, functioning in the light of day and admitting the right of defence, would have attained the same efficiency with far less abuse and depravity. Was it necessary to revert to the procedures of the Inquisition?

  Victor Serge

  Believe, Errors, Light

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• I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

  J. J. Abrams

  Recovery, Thinking, Firsts

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• Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Coward, Finals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• La subordinación legal de un sexo a otro - es errónea en sí misma, y ahora uno de los principales obstáculos para el mejoramiento humano; y que debe ser reemplazada por un sistema de perfecta igualdad, que no admita ningún poder y privilegio por un lado, ni incapacidad por el otro.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Perfect, Sides

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More”, p.71, Madison & Adams

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• It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

  Clay Shirky

  Thinking, Revolution, Internet

  "Here Comes Clay Shirky". Interview with Parul Sehgal, www.publishersweekly.com. June 21, 2010.

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• It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

  Jennifer Echols

  People, Trouble

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Such A Rush”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Pero los sentimientos, por fuertes o "feos" que sean, no forman parte de lo que eres. Son las emisoras de radio que escucha tu mente si no le das algo mejor que hacer. Los sentimientos son fluidos y dinámicos; cambian con frecuencia. Los sentimientos son algo que TIENES, no algo que ERES. Como la belleza física, un herpes labial o una opinión. Admitir que sientes rabia o un dolor terrible o arrepentimiento o alguna vieja y podrida culpa no significa que estos sentimientos formen parte de lo que eres como persona. Lo que significan estos sentimientos es que tienes que cambiar tu forma de pensar para liberarte de ellos.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Strong, Regret, Pain

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• No soy mejor que el siguiente operador, sólo soy más rápido a la hora de admitir mis errores y pasar a la siguiente oportunidad.

  George Soros

  Error, Mudanza, Oportunidad

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• La confianza, como el amor, es una palabra que tiene un gran poder Todo el mundo merece su propio espacio, a su tiempo. Incluso tiene derecho a guardar secretos. Pero no son los secretos los que destruyen las cosas, lo hace la sospecha. Porque puede llevar muchos años construir la confianza, a veces.. todo lo que se necesita es sospecha, ni siquiera se necesitan pruebas para destruir la confianza. Así que, si dices que puedes confiar en alguien, estás admitiendo algo que es incluso más grande que el amor. La confianza, como el amor, es una palabra que tiene un gran poder.

  Rita Zahara

  Trust, Love Is, Years

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• Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm shrinking smaller and smaller and I can't stp it. There's just os much wrong that I can't imagine the shame in admitting even the tiniest part of it. When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up.

  Sarah Dessen

  New Year, Fall, Years

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2000.

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• Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suicide, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• [R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in some circles, a bit like admitting to eating babies. But, just as nobody actually eats babies, so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Circles, People

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

  Albert Camus

  Faith, Stars, Luck

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• Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mean, Responsibility, Past

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Parte del proceso de hacerse adulto es admitir que The Doors era una banda de mierda.

  Moshe Kasher

  Doors, Adults, Band

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• Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.

  Frances Wright

  Understanding, Like You, Creation

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.45

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