
Top 30 Admit Error Quotes
#1. Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.
Dale Carnegie
#2. Science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.
Joan Robinson
#3. A grudging willingness to admit error does not suffice; you have to cultivate a
taste for it.
Aaron Haspel
#4. To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. States function only in terms of what those in control perceive as power or personal ambition, and both of these wear blinkers.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#5. I've made sure to always update my web properties constantly - Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, my Hypebeast blog ... making sure I divided content across all of them to keep each outlet fresh to keep people coming back.
Theophilus London
#6. If you make a mistake, admit it. Any attempt at cover-up will ultimately backfire. At some level the patient will sense you are acting in bad faith, and therapy will suffer. Furthermore, an open admission of error is good model-setting for patients and another sign that they matter to you.
Irvin D. Yalom
#7. The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
Erwin Griswold
#8. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#9. Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.
Ovid
#10. Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.
Leo Errera
#11. The world's supply of heartache is secure. There's love and hate and mayhem everywhere.
Thomas Lynch
#12. Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
Andre Gide
#14. why you've been unable to open your heart to anyone. It belongs to someone else.
Penelope Ward
#15. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dale Turner
#16. The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
Hannah Arendt
#17. This is what we've got at the moment, who we are. It's not nearly what we once had- the good, I mean- but it's also not what we once had, meaning the bad.
Therese Anne Fowler
#18. The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
Clarence Darrow
#19. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#20. Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
Elizabeth Lesser
#21. I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
Tom Perrotta
#22. If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certainly needed a Dr. Watson. And Pippi Longstocking, who supposedly inspired Lisbeth Salander, needed Tommy and Annika, the normal middle-class neighbors.
David Lagercrantz
#23. When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.
Evan Osnos
#24. The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.
John Ruskin
#25. The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.
Robert Pollack
#26. ... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.
David S. Landes
#27. A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
Colin Greenwood
#29. We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
Martin Luther
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