(178 quotes found)
“Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures”
Oscar Wilde
“The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.”
Gregg Easterbrook
“Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.”
Josh Billings
“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time”
Karl Marx
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession”
Daniel Webster
“He who denies all confesses all”
Spanish Proverb
“To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it”
Publilius Syrus
“Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession”
The Talmud
“I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.”
Voltaire
