Hubristic Quotes

#1. Global laissez-faire is not a conspiracy of corporate America. It is a tragedy - one of several that have occurred in the twentieth century - in which an hubristic ideology runs aground on enduring human needs that it has failed to comprehend.

John Gray

#2. The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.

James E. Lovelock

#3. We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.

Joseph Nye

#4. The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.

Ahmed Zewail

#5. The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.

Jami Attenberg

#6. He spoke loudly, declaring his ambitions and opinions with a frankness that might be called hubristic (if one was skeptical) or dauntless (if one was not).

Eleanor Catton

#7. A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

Larry Wall

#8. If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself.

Rolf Jacobsen

#9. Teenagers are more willing to experiment, and they'll find a way to wear something if they like it.

Bella Freud

#10. I think it's ugly, but I don't know anything about modern art. Sometimes I wish Newt would take some lessons, so he could know for sure if he was doing something or not.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. every time we remembered something, we weren't remembering the event itself but the last time we'd remembered it. It

Karen White

#12. A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.

Pam Farrel

#13. Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

Edward Witten

#14. You may lose your path, but you must never lose your hope, because hope is the path to all the paths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. It's not an issue. Everyone's focused on us trying to get a victory. That's where the focus lies ... We're trying to win a game. Who cares about that (other stuff). If we'd played 'em two years ago when it happened, maybe it would be different.

Donnie Edwards

#17. They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

Iris Murdoch

#18. I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

Muriel Spark

#19. The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

Armando Iannucci

#20. Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears,
and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,
Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight,
As brilliant and as bright
As when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes,
Lost in a soft amaze
I gaze, I gaze

John Keats

#21. 'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

Peter Jackson