Admit

Famous quotes containing the word admit:

    We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.
    George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)