Admits Quotes

154 quotes by 144 authors

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through… — Julie Burchill
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. — Robert Burton
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness. — Samuel Johnson
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not… — Aristotle
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation… — Epicurus
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… — Bertrand Russell
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles;… — Thomas Paine
ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as… — Chapman Cohen
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their… — Raymond Chandler
This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth… — Mahatma Gandhi
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin,… — Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits… — Herman Melville
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be… — Alexander Hamilton
Great talent admits shortcomings. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
An exact science is one that admits loss. — Genesis P-Orridge
If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands… — Pete Townshend

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