Quotes Tagged With :overconfidence

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage,....

Better not perceive yourselves too high, O humans.We only value mankind as our experimentation object.....

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all."The intense excitement....

People are way too optimistic about the power they assume they have got to control how they are being....

Never believe you are the best, but believe you are one of the best.

Don't be too obvious about it.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed....

Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.