“It’s hubris to think you’re the only person who can make another happy. Some people simply have the ability to make it… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“In our age, mankind collectively has given itself over to a degree of hubris surpassing everything known in former ages.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo,… — Christopher Peter Grey Copy Share Image
To all the women that I've offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn't have hubris and think… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
“The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with.… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“First, the visionary intellectuals and planners behind them were guilty of hubris, of forgetting that they were mortals and acting as if… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq… — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much.… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The hubris that attends all political programs of central planning is fueled by an ignorance of the forces of chaos.” — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
My fatal flaw is hubris. The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse. What… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering… — Ian Williams Copy Share Image
“Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own… — Dennis Garvin Copy Share Image
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you… — Moby Copy Share Image
Elitists rarely have the temperament to understand real people and real problems, and judges who lead with hubris are dangerous to our… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
“The progress of humanity is stalled by human hubris. AI’s progress, by their intelligent shortsightedness.” — F.C. Quiles Copy Share Image
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
