I Can Admit When I'm Wrong Quotes

#1. I can admit when I'm wrong Decebel, geez. It just happens so rarely that it kind of catches me by surprise.

Quinn Loftis

#2. It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.

Joe Paterno

#4. Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations are wrong and their figures are unable to describe the heavens, or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters.

Italo Calvino

#5. When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

Elvis Presley

#6. For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.

Ian Hislop

#7. Tell me, Constantine, who was afraid of what?
There was no sense in answering. No matter what Con said, Ulrik would never admit that he was wrong and Con was right.

Donna Grant

#8. This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.

Edward De Bono

#9. I do not admit ... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia ... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race ... has come in and taken its place.

Winston Churchill

#10. I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one - at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

D.J. MacHale

#11. To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#12. One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.

Cormac McCarthy

#13. You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

Jonathan Swift

#14. Self-righteousness is an especially heady condition that all of us have experienced at one time or another. Those who are honest will admit there is something sickly-sweet and alluring about knowing you are right, while others are terribly wrong.

David Brin

#15. It is difficult to admit that one is wrong. Particularly when one has been wrong for a very long time.

Fredrik Backman

#16. She wanted to make sure she studied all the manuals thoroughly, but she had to admit that part of her hesitation was the unsettling length of the list of things that could go wrong if she mishandled the pressure.

Jaleigh Johnson

#17. George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.

Bianca Jagger

#18. I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?

Anthony De Mello

#19. and many people are ego-defensive, meaning they can't admit when they've done something wrong because it makes them feel bad about themselves. So I thought instead of emphasizing self-esteem,

Elise Ballard

#20. In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

Billy Corgan

#21. Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One of his most famous quotes is about making mistakes and learning from them. He wasn't shy to admit when things went wrong.

Kevin Allen

#22. The true measure of a real man is that he has the ability to admit when he is wrong, apologize, and make amends to those he wronged

Richard Ashworth

#23. Size isn't important', he quipped.
I have never adhered to this view. As far as I'm concerned, people who say size isn't important, aren't big enough to admit that they're wrong

Tony Hawks

#24. To keep one's marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash

Meg Cabot

#25. No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Alexander Pope

#26. Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.

Beth Moore

#27. I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

Aaron Carter

#28. Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.

John M. Gottman

#29. The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

Jodi Picoult

#30. In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

Dominic Cooper

#31. Don't be shy to say "I am sorry"; Never feel too big to say "Please forgive me"; Don't think it's unnecessary to say "thank you"; Never feel bad to admit "I am wrong"! That's a good tactics is communication!

Israelmore Ayivor

#32. It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

Hannah Arendt

#33. Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Ashly Lorenzana

#34. His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too.

Suzanne Collins

#35. Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.

Lara Logan

#36. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.

Raymond Carver

#37. As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

Michel Houellebecq

#38. there are times when no one is right, and sometimes among family and children, no one can admit that there is no right, and that maybe at the same time there is no wrong. But in this case I was wrong and I appreciate Vivian Baxter for being big enough to accept my apology.

Maya Angelou