“No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A fugitive on the run with a plan for the future is the definition of hubris.” — Tyler Patrick Wood Copy Share Image
We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion. — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There's a certain attitude that you'll experience in San Francisco. You could call it hubris. — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“They didn't come to crush the city. They came to crush the hubris of its king." "That must have hurt," Oates said.… — P.W. Catanese Copy Share Image
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
I know it feels like time is infinite, it's the hubris of youth. Your 40s seem a lifetime away but really they… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“It was your brother who doomed you. I have approached many humans with my story. Always, they are the cause of their… — Chelsea Abdullah Copy Share Image
It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“I believe that the disenchantment of the modern universe is the direct result of a simplistic epistemology and moral posture spectacularly inadequate… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“In contradistinction to the underestimation in the field of rocket science and the aerospace industry, Parsons' accomplishments in the arcane sciences have… — John Carter Copy Share Image
“For many generations…they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin…they reckoned that qualities of character were far… — Plato Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens --… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's easy to ignore the mess around election do that over here in Germany. It's just a blip on the radar for… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
“Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... even the gods.' 'You feel that way?' She… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.” — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work. — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
“In his mildly stoned stupor he forgot that hubris is more deadly than any weapon.” — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
![“Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... even the gods.' 'You feel that way?' She [Annabeth] looked down. 'Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really is messed up? What if we could do it all over again from scratch? No more war. Nobody…” quote by Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/41b/rick-riordan-27_better-job_hubris-means-deadly-pride-percy-thinking_1098844.jpg)
