Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“It's hard to say where is the bigger hubris, in their convictions or in the arrogance of carrying them to a third… — Mary Roach 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
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
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
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
“The progress of humanity is stalled by human hubris. AI’s progress, by their intelligent shortsightedness.” — F.C. Quiles 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
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
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
The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth 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
“Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," mottoes with a similar meaning: You are… — Barry B. Powell Copy Share Image
Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic… — Steve Rubel 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
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
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
“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
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you… — Moby Copy Share Image
Elitists rarely have the temperament to understand real people and real problems, and judges who lead with hubris are dangerous to our… — Mike Johnson 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
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
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
“The hubris that attends all political programs of central planning is fueled by an ignorance of the forces of chaos.” — Butler Shaffer 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
“This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much.… — Erik Larson 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 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
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and… — Philip K. Dick 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
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus 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
“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
“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
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
It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to… — Alice McDermott 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
![“Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," mottoes with a similar meaning: You are only human, so don't try more than you are able (or you will pay the price). A recurring theme in Greek myth is the man or woman who loses sight of human…” quote by Barry B. Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c4/barry-b-powell-61147_greek-myth_carved-on-the-temple-at-delphi-were-the_982498.jpg)
