Overconfidence Quotes
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.
Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
I'm very confident in what I do, but I'd like to think I don't ever show any kind of cockiness or overconfidence.
In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.
There's a lot of overconfidence about this bill. We're going to expose it. It will not pass.
Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.
Better not perceive yourselves too high, O humans.We only value mankind as our experimentation object.
People are way too optimistic about the power they assume they have got to control how they are being perceived. They don't realize that none of the armours they wear is free of holes!
Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.