Self-certainty Quotes

I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.

For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.

Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

I don't feel the need to transition. I'm almost 100 percent positive I won't.

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.

History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.