Over Confidence Quotes

Only when you have crossed the river, can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

I shall be nominated on the next ballot.

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

Never look past the next election, because if you do, you may not get past the next election.

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

The Republican high command thinks that Henry Wallace will take so many votes away from the Democrats, and so little from the Republicans, that it does not matter what the Republican Party does. Victory will be theirs, they assure themselves. When any political party gets this feeling, it is time for that party to beware.

For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Ignorance and confidence is a lethal cocktail.

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government.

In international affairs, you pay for cockiness.

I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

But whereas skepticism and uncertainty have always been the heart and soul of science, confidence and certainty are the coin of the realm in much of today’s public discourse. Unquestioning confidence is deeply troubling for the scientific community because it is not the currency we trade in, and it has led people in America and around the world to question scientific enterprise itself. We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.

Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.