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• The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

  Ralph Ellison

  Pride, Ideas, Irony

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• The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.

  Richard Tarnas

  Self, Shadow, Modern

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• To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Mean, Greed, Survival

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• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  Andrew Bacevich

  War, Mad, Victory

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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• Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

  Larry Wall

  Artist

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• It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to say about anything - people who tweet, you might call them. I find this so astonishing, my own hubris pales in comparison.

  Alice McDermott

  Believe, People, World

  Source: www.salon.com

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• There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to.

  Jason Segel

  Past, Want, Littles

  Source: www.salon.com

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• 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

  Peace, War, United States

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• (Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pride, Men, Confusion

  "The Man in the High Castle". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1962.

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• The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret] Thatcher. Who'd have thunk she'd have been the first to go? She was the invisible author of the book, really. She created the conditions and the hubris whereby that whole culture flourished.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Boys, Sick

  Source: thequietus.com

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• For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Talking, Sea

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• Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

  Michael Pollan

  Dream, Reality, Denial

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Artist, Thinking, Mediums

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• Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

  Oliver North

  Stories, Excitement, Missions

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• 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 like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.

  Michael Pollan

  Appreciation, Mistake, Ignorance

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• So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn’t have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.

  Max Tegmark

  Believe, Humble, Thinking

  "Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology". John Templeton Foundation Intreview, capabilities.templeton.org. 2006.

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• Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Pride, Thinking

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• 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

  Thinking, Special, Generations

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• When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Religious, Islamic, Pride

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• Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Worry, Waste

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• My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

  Brian Aldiss

  Fiction, Definitions, Nemesis

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• Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Life, Country, Mass Destruction

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• The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

  Peter Beinart

  Lines, Disease

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.

  Alan AtKisson

  Believe, People, Optimism

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• My fatal flaw is hubris. The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse. What could be worse than hummus?

  Rick Riordan

  Brain, Sandwiches, Stuff

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