Confess Quotes
490 Confess quotes by 401 unique authors
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That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of…
— William Penn
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And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.
— Homer
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The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had…
— Bill Cosby
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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
— Francis Bacon
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Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
— Saint Augustine
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Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
— John of the Cross
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Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a…
— Maya Angelou
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That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably…
— Daniel Quinn
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Women never confess; even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course, they are never sincere.
— Emile Gaboriau
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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
— Gregg Easterbrook
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I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
— Gary Cole
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Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do…
— William Graham Sumner
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A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it…
— Murray Kempton
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Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained…
— Unknown Author
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