Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.' — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
“guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“It's hard to say where is the bigger hubris, in their convictions or in the arrogance of carrying them to a third… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?” — Amie Kaufman Copy Share Image
It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I still believe heavily that we have to be careful about having this ego and hubris as a successful corporation, that we… — Parker Harris Copy Share Image
The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care,… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“Living aboard one's sailboat and having neither house nor vehicle nor job, and needing none, would be hubris—the most arrogant presumption—and therefore… — Matthew Goldman Copy Share Image
“The Duke has decreed that the Castle is not cold." The gentleman's lips are almost blue from this lack of cold. "And… — Christopher Peter Grey Copy Share Image
As a young actor, there's a lot of hubris. You come in with guns blazing, all kinds of ideas as to how… — Ng Chin Han Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“There is no small irony here: An administration which flaunted its intellectual superiority and its superior academic credentials made the most critical… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly,… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?” — Gordon R. Dickson Copy Share Image
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
