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
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
“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
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
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
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
It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets… — Bret Stephens 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
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
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
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne 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
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. — Ralph Ellison 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
I don't think it's hubris for me to say I'm a Trek fan. So, I don't treat Trek fans as somebody who's… — Damon Lindelof 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
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West 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
