Hubris Quotes

• Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Resources
  • Hubris

• Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

  

  Larry Wall
  • You
  • Artist
  • Hubris

• The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Three
  • Laziness
  • Hubris

• 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 Big Black
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Mediums

• We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Victim
  • Hubris

• “They didn't come to crush the city. They came to crush the hubris of its king." "That must have hurt," Oates said. Umber pinched the bridge of his nose. "Hubris means arrogance, you great buffoon.”

  

  P.W. Catanese
  • Arrogance
  • Hubris
  • Buffoon

• Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

  

  George Coyne
  • Scientist
  • Claims
  • Misunderstood

• 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

• Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim to humility. I see hubris on both sides: a pretence that we could ascend to an objective account of the world, on the one hand, and a pretence that we have the resources to live and act without a sense of there being something to which we answerable, on the other. So both sides are 'villains'.

  

  David E. Cooper
  • World
  • Humility
  • Claims

• Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Long
  • Choices
  • Speak

• These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Things
  • Unique
  • Made

• 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
  • Universe
  • Exception
  • Absurdity

• 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
  • Worry
  • Enough
  • Situation