“Best not to take, yet doubt its strength, A leash with Demons at its length.” — McKenzie Bodkin 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
“In his mildly stoned stupor he forgot that hubris is more deadly than any weapon.” — Alan Dean Foster 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
With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work. — Patrick Dempsey 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
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
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
“There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Science is full of questions and often those questions do not have answers. Expertise on the other hand, is a conclusion, it's… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
“There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we… — David McCullough 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror'… — Anonymous 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
“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
It's easy to ignore the mess around election do that over here in Germany. It's just a blip on the radar for… — Measha Brueggergosman 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
There's a certain attitude that you'll experience in San Francisco. You could call it hubris. — Alexandra C. Pelosi 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
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
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
