Assurance Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assurance Confidence Confidence in yourself Knowledge Self Self assurance Self confidence Self esteem and confidence Self knowledge
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities. — Cecelie Berry Copy Share Image
Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Being self-aware is not the absence of mistakes, but the ability to learn and correct them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“SELF-CONFIDENCE IMPLIES THAT YOU ARE CONVINCED YOU CAN ACT UPON YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE.” — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“A Frenchman's self-assurance stems from his belief that he is mentally and physically irresistibly fascinating to both men and women. An Englishman's self-assurance is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own — George Muller Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window. — Alan Cox Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all, we have… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
