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Quotes About Confidence

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
~ Terence McKenna
Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.
~ Kim Cattrall
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
~ Khaled Hosseini
What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.
~ Oliver Smithies
The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.
~ David Storey
They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.
~ Neal Stephenson, Anathem
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I don't believe. I know.
~ Carl Jung
Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.
~ Peggy Orenstein
He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.
~ William Blake
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
~ Carol Kane
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
~ Olive Schreiner
Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.
~ Nelly Mazloum
You don't need absolute knowledge to have reliable knowledge
~ D. J. Grothe
Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
~ Twyla Tharp
I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.
~ Gisele Bundchen
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
~ George Eliot
I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.
~ Anderson Cooper
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Not if I know myself at all.
~ Charles Lamb
Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.
~ Edward Gibbon
I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It's part of me.
~ Action Bronson
I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.
~ Al Capp