Confidence Quotes
The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
"The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."— Mark Twain
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Meaning of this quote
Confidence in dismissing another person's beliefs can reveal how little one has examined one's own. Twain uses that reversal to encourage scepticism about self-serving certainty.
Key takeaway:
Apply the same scrutiny to your beliefs that you apply to others'.
Origin of the quote
Recorded in Albert Bigelow Paine's Mark Twain, A Biography (1912).
Who actually said this?
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