Confidence Vs Knowledge Quotes

#1. The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything.
(attrib: E. Tancarville)

Dan Garfat-Pratt

#2. The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge

David Storey

#3. If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new, something unknown, has entered us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

Napoleon Hill

#5. Not confidence - I understand confidence. What he had was knowledge.

Leif Enger

#6. Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.

Norman Vincent Peale

#7. Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

Nelly Mazloum

#8. From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence.

E. O. Wilson

#9. Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Eoin Colfer

#10. But with knowledge comes confidence. And with happiness comes creativity.

Karina Halle

#11. 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 ...

#12. I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts ... In contrast, when discussing matters of concern to human lives - their own and others - people tend to defer to experts.

Noam Chomsky

#13. A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

Audrey Hepburn

#14. Confidence is not some nonphysical quality snatched from the spiritual dimension and installed in the mind. It is the feeling that arises when the body's knowledge of itself is in harmony with a person's dreams.

Matt Fitzgerald

#15. Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

George Santayana