Top 43 Confidence And Ignorance Quotes
#1. It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.
Sam Harris
#2. Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#3. Nothing is known for sure, even the person who was there isn't entirely sure he or she had the same response as the other in that moment. One person might have fallen head over heels, the other might have been thinking about what to have for dinner and inadvertently making eye contact.
Sophie Blackall
#4. A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
Laini Taylor
#5. Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#6. Young gentlemen whose whiskers have not yet developed are authoritatively deciding that nothing can be decided, and dogmatically denouncing all dogmas. We meet them every day, and we notice that in proportion to their ignorance is their confidence in sneering at every holy thing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#7. Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#8. puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We
Daniel Kahneman
#9. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.
Robert A. Heinlein
#10. Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
Eoin Colfer
#11. All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain
#13. Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#14. Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.
Jared Polis
#15. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know.
Laini Taylor
#16. Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
Jeremy Collier
#17. Ignorance and confidence are constant companions
John McAfee
#19. People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others' needs more highly than their own.
Auliq Ice
#20. Without self-discovery," Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche's, "a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens.
Andrew Solomon
#21. Despite my height, ignorance, heartbreaks, insecurity, criticism, competition, my skin color, that voice in my head that says 'No way', bad luck, a tight budget, insults, fear, flaws, failure and opposition. I believe in myself.
Manasa Rao
#22. In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
Boethius
#23. The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge
David Storey
#24. It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
#25. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
#27. Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
Virginia Postrel
#28. Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
Janet Malcolm
#30. The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.
Samuel Marinus Zwemer
#31. On the other side of the curtain, children were squabbling, a baby was crying, and there was the smell of rat-and-cabbage casserole. Someone was sharpening an axe. And someone else was snoring. For a dwarf in Ankh-Morpork, solitude was something that you had to cultivate on the inside. Books
Terry Pratchett
#32. Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
Orson Welles
#33. My students, alas, usually lack the confidence to acknowledge what would be their most precious asset for learning: their ignorance.
Mark Edmundson
#34. I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.
Dean Koontz
#35. You must know the purpose of your life and reach it confidently
Sunday Adelaja
#36. DNA isn't destiny - it's history.
Anonymous
#37. All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure ... MARK TWAIN
Julia London
#38. A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
Elvis Presley
#39. I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I've got all kinds.
Amanda Seyfried
#40. Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
#41. It enraged me. It was their confidence, maybe - their blissful, swinish ignorance, their bumptious self-satisfaction, and, worst of all, their hope.
John Gardner
#42. Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra Pound
#43. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
