Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

A fool is wise in his eyes.

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

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

If you think you're right 80% of the time, you're deluded.

The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

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

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

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

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.

When you think you're a really good person, you're actually capable of doing some real harm to people, either knowingly or unknowingly. It's the big little lie that we all live in.

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.

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.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.