β€œThe problem with humanity is that stupid people are sure of everything and intelligent people are full of doubts.”

Bertrand Russell

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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Corollary: the less you know, the more you think you know.

This is why teenagers are know-it-alls.

I'm not sure that's true πŸ˜‚

That's by design. It is advantageous for all of us that the idiots do the dangerous things we have doubts about. Then when things aren't as dangerous as we calculated and the idiot survives, we get free data. Never risking the true intelligence among us.