Confidence Quote by Robert Trivers

“If you think you know everything, you will be proven time after time that you only know very little. The right amount of confidence…

— JOHN TASKINSOY

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Overconfidence precedes carelessness.”

— Toba Beta

“Overconfidence leads to carelessness, which leads just as surely to disaster.”

— Sally MacKenzie

There is a long history of research showing that people are overconfident about their abilities. But it turns out that people in general are…

— Carol S. Dweck

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

— Lou Holtz

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”4”

— Denise Minger

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Remember not to be overconfident in your assessments, as it’s possible you are wrong.”

— Ray Dalio