Cocksure Quotes
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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I wish that I was as cocksure of anything asTom Macaulay is of everything.
— 1889 Attributed by Earl Cowper.
I'm always described as "cocksure" or "with a swagger," and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
ben affleck— Regarding directing his first feature film
— "Big Ben makes directing debut" ROBIN WALKER. Daily Post. Liverpool (UK): May 30, 2008.
...the other three were of a breed Verkan Vall had learned to recognize on any time-line--the arrogant, cocksure, ambitious, leftist politician, who knows what is best for everybody better than anybody else does, and who is convinced that he is inescapably right and that whoever differs with him is not only an ignoramus but a venal scoundrel as well.
h. beam piper— Verkan Vall in Last Enemy (1950)
"I got my first assignment as a director in 1927. I was slim, arrogant, intelligent, foolish, shy, cocksure, dreamy and irritating. Today, I'm no longer slim."
Michael Powell— Michael Powell, 1987
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
— Bertrand Russell, "The Triumph of Stupidity" (1933-05-10) in Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935 (Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0-415-17866-5), p. 28.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
bertrand russell— Often paraphrased as "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."Cf. Russell (1951) New Hopes for a Changing World, "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."Cf. also W. B. Yeats (1919), The Second Coming, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."
