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
Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else. — Rick Riordan 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
Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm… — Harlan Ellison 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
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
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
Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris… — Kieron Gillen 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
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
“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
“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
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 problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If U.S. mistakes in the Middle East helped Putin raise Russia's global profile, China's missteps and hubris in East and Southeast Asia,… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those… — Oliver North 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
The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris,… — Erik Larson 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
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering… — Ian Williams 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 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
