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More Cocksure Quotes

This quote is filed under Cocksure Quotes, one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside.… — Ben Affleck
• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as… — Bertrand Russell
• The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey. — B. C. Forbes
• Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers… — Bertrand Russell
• I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
• We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Education is going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty. — Mary Kay Utecht
• The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of… — Ritu Ghatourey
• The primary cause of trouble in the world is the fact that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are… — Lekan Wahab

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