“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
Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie… — Rick Riordan 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
“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
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
It's true, I do love the semi-epiphany. For example, in "Fall Line," the character's final decision is less epiphany than imbecility. He… — Alexander Weinstein 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
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
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
“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
I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should… — Terence McKenna 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
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
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
So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
“If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try… — Charles Yu 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
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
It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe… — Alan AtKisson 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
