Michael Crichton Quotes

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

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

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

I've always had this strong sense that I know best.

I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?

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

There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

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

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

I don't feel like there is anybody out there with more confidence than me.

There's no such thing as too much confidence.

None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

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.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me