The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

History is more or less bunk.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

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

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.