Admission Quotes - Page 2

• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  Quintilian

  Faults, Brilliant, Excellent

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1829, Delphi Classics

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• Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Brother, Rights

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

  Stephen Covey

  Ignorance, Firsts, Steps

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.41, Mango Media Inc.

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• Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Enthusiasm, Fees

  Kin Hubbard (1917). “Abe Martin's Back Country Sayings”

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• To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

  Aldous Huxley

  Judgment, Wit, Guts

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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• No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strength, Perseverance, Years

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Philosophy, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

  Frederick Reines

  School, Technology, Encounters

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• The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Weakness, Sound, Morality

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• The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Men, Principles

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• Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Men, Weakness

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• ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

  Robert Sternberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

  George Edmund Street

  Light, Church, Towns

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• Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

  Max Lerner

  Art, Teenage, Fall

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

  Roy Romer

  Educational, College, Years

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• good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Gloves, Tender Is The Night, Manners

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ambition, Gryffindor, Hogwarts

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• This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.

  Robertson Davies

  Theatre, Taxation, Shows

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

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• I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Spring, Long, Mind

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Heart, Soul

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist”, p.272, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.

  Jostein Gaarder

  People, Giving, Cost

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Ignorance, Honor, Aristocracy

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.639, The Floating Press

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• Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy

  John Piper

  Prayer, Needs, Helping

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.161, Multnomah

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• The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

  Groucho Marx

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Tongue

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.108, Da Capo Press

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