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It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.
— Aleister Crowley
There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.
— Walter Scott
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
— Larry Wall
The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look
like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta
like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta
Sometimes, the gods are kind. And hubris is the worst of sins.
— Christian Cameron
Unbridled talent can handicap you with hubris.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
— Kevin Spacey
Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?
— Gordon R. Dickson
Hubris is when God screws you over for being a smartass.
— Raymond L. Atkins
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
— Garrett Hardin
Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.
— Dennis Garvin
It's hard to say where is the bigger hubris, in their convictions or in the arrogance of carrying them to a third decimal point
— Mary Roach
I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.
— David Foster Wallace
Adam named every creature in the garden. And we've been paying for his presumption ever since.
— Marty Rubin
When we don't put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.
— Zeena Schreck
It's only hubris if I fail.
— Julius Caesar
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
— Joseph Campbell
And the gods did not kill for hubris-for hubris, they let you live long enough to learn.
— Alexander Chee
Trying to be more than human one becomes less.
— Marty Rubin
What is technology in the end but man's futile effort to create the world in his own image?
— Marty Rubin
We can never be gods, after all
but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin
but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin
If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.
— Albert Camus
This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm. He
— Noah Hawley
Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.
— Janet Morris
I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
— Michael Ignatieff
The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.
— Rick Riordan
It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.
— Rosa Brooks
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
— Ralph Ellison
Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars ... we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.
— Andrew Greeley
I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
— Kristan Higgins
The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?
— Ben Willoughby
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
— Moby
Hubris and science are incompatible.
— Douglas Preston
Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.
— Mark Jenkins
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Is it hubris to believe we all live epics?
— Leif Enger
Experience is not the enemy: It is the hubris that is often a by-product of experience that is our greatest enemy.
— Liz Wiseman
We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.
— David Gergen
Every medicine is vain.
— Aeschylus
MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.
— Donald Clark
Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.
— Marty Rubin
No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.
— Babara Tuchman
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.
— Michael Dirda
Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience.
— C.J.S. Hayward
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
— Thomas Sowell
No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.
— W. Somerset Maugham
But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?
— Amie Kaufman
Matt Smith?" I said. "Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.
— Patricia Briggs
Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.
— Meghan Daum
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
— David Halberstam
It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.
— Hugh Howey
I would never disable spell-check. That would be hubris. Autocorrect I could do without.
— Mary Norris
Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.
— Marty Rubin
Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others.
— Guy R. McPherson
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
— Vladimir Nabokov
There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a rival good to God's.
— Evelyn Waugh
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
— Michael Pollan
The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.
— Richard Tarnas
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
— Steve Albini
Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view.
— James Thurber
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 hubris.
— Chris Van Allsburg
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
— Larry Wall
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.
— Dejan Stojanovic
With competition there is always ego and hubris ... competition gets in the way of work.
— Patrick Dempsey
Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.
— Athanasius Kircher