False Confidence Quotes

When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.

I thought I was bulletproof, and I'm not.

It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

Be careful of hubris about ideas—especially your own. Remember always, that there is one commonality between all the good ideas that were ever created and all the bad ideas: The people you created them thought that they were good ideas.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)

I think what's hysterically funny is a guy who sets himself up as the most confident, everything's-perfect, know-it-all, things-are-swell human being and then gets wiped out every time.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be.

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.