Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final…

— Frank B. Wilderson III

I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present…

— Rachel Held Evans

The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of…

— Anonymous

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

— William Jennings Bryan

You can't go into games with any fear. You can acknowledge a good team but you can't go in worrying.

— Reece James

Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are…

— Kristina Schroder

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

— Susan Maushart

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of…

— Austin Farrer

Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to…

— Natalie Goldberg

I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as…

— David Graeber

No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life."…

— Robert A. Burton

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.…

— Susan Sontag

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be…

— Bernard Lonergan

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

— Abigail Adams