John Churton Collins Quotes

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Only a fool would think the league was already won after just ten games.

The ones doing that, counting me out, are going to look silly.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Ignorance and confidence is a lethal cocktail.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

I look back at the first Groves fight, and it was all so bad, so wrong. Everyone was telling me it was going to be easy, the bookies, everyone. Like an unprofessional fool, like an idiot, I listened to them. I didn't give myself the best possible chance.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

Success had gone to my head and I made stupid decisions.