Omission Quotes
More Omission Quotes
The art of drawing is the art of omission.
— Quoted in Paul Klee On Modern Art (1979).
Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in children.One finger in thethroat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.
— Collected in W B Bean (ed) Sir William Osler: Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings (1950).
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— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. ix
Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.
sarada devi— Thus Spake the Holy Mother. pp. 72-73.
It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,That lays eggs under your skin.
ogden nash— "Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" (1959)
There are sins of omission as well as of commission.
— Harmful inactions are just as morally reprehensible as harmful actions.
— Carson, D. A. (2006). How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil (2, reimpresa ed.). Baker Academic. p. 50.
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized "realistic" story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its "realist" style.
Stanley Kubrick— Quoted in Kubrick : Inside a Film Artist's Maze (2000) by Thomas Allen Nelson, p.14
Words are transient, and vanish in the air as soon as spoken, and there can be no tenor of them . . . but when a thing is written, though every omission of a letter may not make a variance, yet, if such omission makes a word of another signification, it is fatal.
— Holt, C.J., Queen v. Drake (1706), 3 Salkeld, 225.
