Best 24 quotes in «overconfidence quotes» category

Why do they wait until sixth grade when you already know everything?

When ever you think that you're the best in something you do,then there will be always someone will come to prove you wrong.

What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don't know they're con men. They're wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience--that's part of the mythology that surrounds the Special Forces....Your guy can walk in the door and promise training in something he personally doesn't know how to do, and not even realize he's bullshitting about his own capabilities. It's a special kind of gullibility....

You know, I can't stop thinking about you. Oh really? Why you so obsessed about me? Because..you're so full of shit yet still alive.

There's a lot of overconfidence about this bill. We're going to expose it. It will not pass.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.

Don't be too obvious about it.

Can it cure the one spiritual disease?” asked Father Brown, with a serious curiosity. “And what is the one spiritual disease?” asked Flambeau, smiling. “Oh, thinking one is quite well,” said his friend.

Don't belittle anyone who you don't recognize. Don't be fooled by anybody who underrates you.

Better not perceive yourselves too high, O humans. We only value mankind as our experimentation object.

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.

Overconfidence precedes carelessness.

I have a cunning plan.

It's alright to have a good opinion of yourself, but we Americans are so smug with our cockiness, we somehow feel that just because we are Americans, we can whip our weight in wildcats.

It wasn't that he seemed at all violent - rather, he had a peculiar unhinged intensity that told her that to challenge him would mean hearing him defend his hypothesis for the next forty minutes.

Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press

Overconfidence gets you dead.

Never believe you are the best, but believe you are one of the best.

Since he was much weaker than his enemy, he could afford to display no weakness at all.

People are way too optimistic about the power they assume they have got to control how they are being perceived. They don't realize that none of the armours they wear is free of holes!

some time you are very much sure and there where you make mistake.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.