Top Omission Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Omission quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Abraham Verghese
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
- Abraham Verghese
Collection: Omission
Image of Alexander Theroux
There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.
- Alexander Theroux
Collection: Omission
Image of Marianne Moore
Omissions are not accidents.
- Marianne Moore
Collection: Omission
Image of Joel Beeke
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What a shock to our complacency- that everything of us by nature belongs to sin. Our silences belong to sin, our omissions belong to sin, our talents belong to sin, our actions belong to sin. Every facet of our personalities belong to sin; it own us and dominates us. We are its servants.
- Joel Beeke
Collection: Omission
Image of John Pawson
The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.
- John Pawson
Collection: Omission
Image of Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.
- Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Collection: Omission
Image of William Shakespeare
Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Omission
Image of Elizabeth McCracken
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
- Elizabeth McCracken
Collection: Omission
Image of John Owen
He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though but one is so to him.
- John Owen
Collection: Omission
Image of Watchman Nee
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.
- Watchman Nee
Collection: Omission
Image of Tom Stoppard
You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.
- Tom Stoppard
Collection: Omission
Image of Aron Nimzowitsch
The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.
- Aron Nimzowitsch
Collection: Omission
Image of Myrtle Reed
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
- Myrtle Reed
Collection: Omission
Image of Gautama Buddha
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
- Gautama Buddha
Collection: Omission
Image of Edsger Dijkstra
Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.
- Edsger Dijkstra
Collection: Omission
Image of George Eliot
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.
- George Eliot
Collection: Omission
Image of Isabel Paterson
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.
- Isabel Paterson
Collection: Omission
Image of Milton Friedman
I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33, and 1937-38 - is directly attributable to acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities and would not have occurred under earlier monetary and banking arrangements.
- Milton Friedman
Collection: Omission