Quotes About Overconfidence

That cowboy's really full of himself. He thinks he's something and that means he's not.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Pride comes before a fall.

A man is proud until he falls.

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

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.

Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.

Presumption said, Every fat must stand upon his own bottom.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose." It also makes them think they don't need to learn.

Remember that a man may be mistaken on this subject, but yet be a holy child of God. It is not the slumbering on this subject that ruins souls, but the lack of grace! Above all, avoid dogmatism and overconfidence, especially when dealing with symbolic prophecy. It is a sad truth, but a truth never to be forgotten, that none have injured the doctrine of the second coming more than its overzealous friends.

There is nothing I dislike so much in prophetic inquiry as dogmatism or overconfidence. Much of the discredit that has fallen on prophetic study has arisen from the fact that many students, instead of expounding prophecy, have turned into prophets themselves.

That was the trouble with smart men. They thought they had all the answers, and then when life knocked them aside, they thought it was all their faults.

The rule will often be here reiterated: financial genius is before the fall. I

Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.

And every fall a great number of men set out to prove that without talent, training, knowledge, or practice they are dead shots with rifle or shotgun. The results are horrid.

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.

What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe?

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!