Elizabeth I Quotes

A fool is wise in his eyes.

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.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

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.

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

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.

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

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

My biggest problem is overconfidence.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

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

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

Thinking you're a genius is death.