Quotes About Overestimation

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's. "And

But perhaps I took the serious-minded too seriously and overestimated the maturity of the mature.

There are three entirely consistent characteristics of groupthink: closed-mindedness, pressure toward uniformity, and overestimation of the in-group.31

Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and writers are just painters . . . Let us not overestimate the power of any form of literature.

He's an undersized pissant with delusions of adequacy.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

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 are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight.

If you're entitled, you likely think you know more than you do.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.