George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

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

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

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

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

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

Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.