Prince Machiavelli Overconfidence Quotes & Sayings

I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up. — Philip J. Hilts

I watch the TV or learn scripts while on the elliptical - need to get back on it! — Bryan Batt

The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing. — Erica Lorraine Scheidt

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. — E. T. Bell

If you give up your rights now, don't expect to get them back. — Rand Paul

I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to. — Lindsey Vonn

The highest achievement possible to man is the full consciousness of his own feelings and thoughts, for this gives him the means of knowing intimately the hearts of others. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

God is beautiful and He loves beauty. — Nazr Mohammed

Confidence is seen, not heard. — Kelly Clarkson

Sex is fun to sing about. — Mirah

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends. — William Whewell

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down. — Ethel Waters

Pain, which is the feeling of our finiteness, is not a fixture in our life. It is not an end in itself, as joy is. To meet with it is to know that it has no part in the true permanence of creation. It is what error is in our intellectual life. To go through the history of the development of science is to go through the maze of mistakes it made current at different times. Yet no one really believes that science is the one perfect mode of disseminating mistakes. The progressive ascertainment of truth is the important thing to remember in the history of science, not its innumerable mistakes. Error, by its nature, cannot be stationary; it cannot remain with truth; like a tramp, it must quit its lodging as soon as it fails to pay its score to the full. — Rabindranath Tagore