Noun
overbearing pride or presumption
Source: WordNetThe three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. Larry Wall
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. Michael Pollan
Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started. Mary Midgley
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
What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell. Ilana Mercer
One can only be staggered by the hubris of modern artists if we compare them, say, to the humble builders of Chartres Cathedral whose names are not even known. The artist ought to be distinguished by selfless devotion to duty; but we forgot about that a long time ago. Andrei Tarkovsky