— How do you know you're right?
— I don't, I just find it hard to operate on the opposite assumption.
— I suspect she's quite a tough nut.
— And I'm quite a tough nutcracker.
It is so easy to convert others to your faith, and it is so difficult to convert yourself.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science».
«The Descent of Man» (1871), volume I, «Introduction», page 3.
There are two types of people in this world. The people who radiate confidence and naturally excel at life... Yes! Yes! And the people who hope all those people die in a big explosion.
The more you explain to me, the less I'm sure.
The more I can see, the less I want to know.
Overconfidence is poison, but confidence becomes power.
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
Overconfidence is poison, but confidence becomes power.
90% of life is confidence, and the thing about confidence is that no one knows if it's real or not.