Confidence Quotes

It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science».

«The Descent of Man» (1871), volume I, «Introduction», page 3.

Charles Darwin

knowledge

ignorance

life quotes

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.

— I'd give 100%.
— That'll get you halfway there.

Gattaca

Vincent Freeman

German (gene-broker)

There are two types of people in this world. The people who radiate confidence and naturally excel at life... Yes! Yes! And the people who hope all those people die in a big explosion.

The Edge of Seventeen

Nadine Franklin

human, people

dream

The more you explain to me, the less I'm sure.
The more I can see, the less I want to know.

Guano Apes

This Time

knowledge

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

doubt

Meaningful Quotes

Overconfidence is poison, but confidence becomes power.

Everything's gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.

The Hours

Virginia Woolf

kindness

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

90% of life is confidence, and the thing about confidence is that no one knows if it's real or not.