“No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.” — Babara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Best not to take, yet doubt its strength, A leash with Demons at its length.” — McKenzie Bodkin Copy Share Image
“The hubris of man cannot hope to fathom the infinite jest that is woman.” — Trevor E. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others. — Guy R. McPherson Copy Share Image
I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris,… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Science is full of questions and often those questions do not have answers. Expertise on the other hand, is a conclusion, it's… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
“There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic… — Steve Rubel Copy Share Image
“Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," mottoes with a similar meaning: You are… — Barry B. Powell Copy Share Image
Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings… — n.t. Wright Copy Share Image
When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things… — James K. Glassman Copy Share Image
“We Close In Fifteen Minutes by Stewart Stafford Found myself the only taker, Of a minefield guided tour, Through no man's land… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too… — Plato Copy Share Image
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