Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
The Bible
Source: James 5:16
Contributed by: AERYCK
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Contributed by: Zaady
Torture the data long enough and they will confess to anything.
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Thou shalt confess the vain pursuit Of human glory yields no fruit But an untimely grave.
Thomas Carew (1595 - 1639)
Source: On the Duke of Buckingham.
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is.
Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 176.
Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
S. Leonard Rubinstein
We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed.
Robert Burton (1577 - 1640)
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.