Omission Quotes

Omission Quote of the day

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Omissions are not accidents.

A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

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.

It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.

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.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

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.

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

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.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

If it judges your conscience, then you are in some way guilty of it by action, words or omission.

[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

Both glory and dominion last forever but glory is for God and dominion is for mankind.

Error of omission begets new rules.