My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss 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
“No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work. — Patrick Dempsey 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough,… — Walter M. Miller Jr 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus 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
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
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
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
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
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