Confidence And Stupidity Quotes & Sayings

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie," he added, without looking at her. — Michael Scott

Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school. — Steve Sailer

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it. — Adolf Hitler

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act — Aldous Huxley

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies. — Lina Wertmuller

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. — Luis Palau

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism. — Andrea Hirata

It is a very wide range of people that we get for the show. — Humphrey Lyttelton

Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together. — Sadhguru

President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro. — Conan O'Brien

You can throw a fit and cry at every bend in the road, or you can trust the process and learn to enjoy it. — Leigh Hershkovich

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings. — Shannon L. Alder

People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others' needs more highly than their own. — Auliq Ice

Alex direly wanted to try something stupid, but he wasn't about try anything stupid under these circumstances. He'd wait till he won their confidence, till they gave him a lot more initiative and leeway. Then he'd try something stupid. — Bruce Sterling

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell. — Hans Kung

... in the case where the self is merely represented and ideally presented (vorgestellt), there it is not actual: where it is by proxy, it is not. -Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind — Guy Debord

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

When the Dublin-born Beckett was asked by a Parisian journalist whether he was English, he replied, 'On the contrary. — Terry Eagleton

At the laboratory, Turing designed the first relatively complete electronic stored-program digital computer for code breaking in 1945. Darwin deemed it too ambitious, however, and after several years Turing left in disgust. When the laboratory finally built his design in 1950, it was the fastest computer in the world and, astonishingly, had the memory capacity of an early Macintosh built three decades later. — Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen. — Jerry Bruckheimer

If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do. — Chuck Pagano