Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings… — n.t. Wright Copy Share Image
The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I still believe heavily that we have to be careful about having this ego and hubris as a successful corporation, that we… — Parker Harris Copy Share Image
What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care,… — Ilana Mercer 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
“The Duke has decreed that the Castle is not cold." The gentleman's lips are almost blue from this lack of cold. "And… — Christopher Peter Grey Copy Share Image
In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things… — James K. Glassman Copy Share Image
“We Close In Fifteen Minutes by Stewart Stafford Found myself the only taker, Of a minefield guided tour, Through no man's land… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw 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
“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face… — Michael Pollan 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
“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
“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
“In his mildly stoned stupor he forgot that hubris is more deadly than any weapon.” — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness. — Michael Dirda 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
