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Hubris Quotes by Michael Pollan
- When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery…
- Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
More Hubris Quotes
- 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
- Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth. — Janet Morris
- Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
- The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either… — Wendell Berry
- The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris. — Richard Tarnas
- 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
- Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris — Thucydides
- Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not… — David Foreman
- I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control. — David Foster Wallace
- 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
- Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. — Larry Wall
- It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is. — Lisa Randall