Quotes About False Confidence

#1. That an entire industry could float in a mist of illusion and false confidence is depressing but true, and better to learn earlier than later.

Jason Kelly

#2. She smiled at me, her ancient face so lined only the sparkle of her eyes gave it away. "My dear, I can get lost from my bed to the toilet these days. I find presumptions to be a source of false confidence.

April White

#3. This was not just money wasted but the construction of a false confidence based on an erroneous focus.

Anonymous

#4. Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Jules Feiffer

#5. Have a heartattack!

David Lubar

#6. False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Hesiod

#7. For the social phobic, any kind of performance - musical, sporting, public speaking - can be terrifying because failure will reveal the weakness and inadequacy within. This in turn means constantly projecting an image that feels false - an image of confidence, competence, even perfection.

Scott Stossel

#8. I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence." I continued. "The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

Rasmenia Massoud

#9. Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.

Gina Lake

#10. I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

William O. Douglas

#11. The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

Dorothea Brande

#12. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. Sometimes before it gets better
the darkness gets bigger.
The person that you'd take a bullet for
is behind the trigger.

Fall Out Boy

#14. True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.

Joyce Rachelle

#15. Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.

Thomas Pynchon

#16. Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

Elizabeth Loftus

#17. When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

Trip Adler

#18. People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

Charlie Munger

#20. In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.

Natasha Pulley

#21. I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

Mary Badham

#22. The pieces don't fit perfectly together and don't tell the whole story. Only the viewer can say if I succeeded.

Susan Juby

#23. To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.

Kano Jigoro

#24. False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

Dov Davidoff