“No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.” — Babara Tuchman 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
“Best not to take, yet doubt its strength, A leash with Demons at its length.” — McKenzie Bodkin Copy Share Image
Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others. — Guy R. McPherson Copy Share Image
We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. — Anonymous 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
“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
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
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable. — Marianne Williamson 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss 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 only human, so don't try more than you are able (or you will pay the price). A recurring theme in Greek myth is the man or woman who loses sight of human…” quote by Barry B. Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8c4/barry-b-powell-61147_greek-myth_carved-on-the-temple-at-delphi-were-the_982498.jpg)
