Sentences with phrase «not hubris»

[Response: It's not hubris, it's physics.

«History, not hubris, tells us that we will pick up seats,» Ward wrote in the DCCC memo.

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The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

What happens next is sad: Those previously humble people become known for traits like hubris and haughtiness, to the point that people can't stand to be around «the leader» anymore.

It wasn't NASA's «hubris» that caused those deaths, but more mundane, and rather slight, technological flaws, from which engineers learned much.

Regardless of Apple's true motive in all of this, I can't help but think their hubris hurt them in the way they handled the FBI request.

And you can do that, not with hubris or brash posturing, she continues, but by logging the hours and doing the work.

What they do not realize is that by fighting against government power to check financial hubris, they are paving the road for centralized financial planning by Wall Street.

What I find incredible about Thorp's example is not only that maximized his understanding and beat the market, but that he avoided the quackery and hubris that can so often bedevil people who have ventured so far from the average.

The greatest threat is not from climate change but from the hubris to build so much in regions where we know hurricanes will continue to land.

Hubris, meanwhile, is not a fair label to apply to any person who thinks differently and has the courage to assert or act on their convictions.

But Eastwood and those who applauded him were driven by hubris, not humility.

For the sake of everyone she helps, I'm glad she ignored his hubris and went on to help the dying in the manner that they need, not what someone else thinks they need.

To conceive of an infinite, eternal punishment may have been genius, but it also reveals that vindictive hubris (not to mention immoral).

Tyerman is not unaware of this, although he is quick to disclaim any such comparison: «It would be folly and hubris to pretend to compete, to match, as it were, my clunking computer keyboard with his [Runciman's] pen, at once a rapier and a paintbrush; to pit one volume, however substantial, with the breadth, scope and elegance of his three.»

I was just asking clarifying questions and you go to hubris insults, not much of a dialogue.

Croesus» hubris results in the loss of his kingdom, and his freedom, to Cyrus, who in turn repeats the pattern: After gaining great wealth, he decides - even though Croesus himself warns him against it - to invade a poor country, and he loses not only the war with the Massagetae but also his life.

To not only claim to know there is a God but to claim you know his name and how he wants all his slave humans to behave is beyond hubris, it is self deification, claiming to know the mind of God, regardless of whether you rely on some ancient book for that knowledge or not.

This might seem to have been a symptom of great hubris, but Einstein is after all to be forgiven for it because it wasn't questions of theology that occupied him so much as questions of design.

That can't work and is just hubris.

When virtually every expert in the field agrees that the Theory is a fact, arguing that because the details aren't all agreed on the theory is false is silly and requires enormous hubris.

The awful moral choice forced on Senator Kerrey is a commonplace aspect of war, not understood at all by professors and editorial writers who imagine, with obscene hubris, that they could avoid the guilt feelings associated with combat.

As to the «obscene hubris» of professors who imagine that they can avoid feelings of guilt, I am not sure who Dr. Breen is referring to.

That is not national hubris.

The bigger problem however, is that most people relish in their ignorance and don't wish to educate themselves on different cultures and / or point of views and are content with their own hubris.

In such words some claim to detect not humility but hubris, an uncritical identification of our purposes with the purposes of God.

The confidence that they will not, it is to be feared, is based on little more than sentimental naivete and the unseemly hubris of our assumed moral superiority to «them.»

If humanity does not survive the next century it will be because of religious hubris and morons like this OP.

He concludes that more attention to the Bible did not necessarily mean more virtuous action; that personal engagement with the Bible did result in self - sacrificing service, but also in divisive hubris, mistaken interpretations (such as the identification of America with ancient Israel), and blindness to social evils; and that Protestant spiritual individualism undercut corrupt hierarchies and supported democracy, but also promoted political excesses and violent anti-Catholicism.

But wouldn't you agree that there is a certain hubris involved in presuming to baptize dead strangers who never shared your faith?

If we claim to know what we do not know, our programs for reunion become nothing more than a pious version of the hubris of Babel.

I just haven't seen scientific proof either way, so I try to get rid of the hubris by saying that I simply don't know if there is a god (s) or not.

HOWEVER, the HOA is not above federal law and that is where the problem, and the hubris, lies.

Driving such judicial usurpation of politics is not only intellectual hubris but also a curious notion of individual rights.

Would we not be wiser to act out of an acknowledgment of our ignorance, as Berry has suggested, rather than out of hubris, as we too long have done?

Out of the billions of galaxies in the universe Out of the billions of systems and planets Out of the hundreds of gods humans have produced You have the hubris to think that your little god listens to your prayers And if you don't believe then that little loving god will burn you for eternity.

Indeed, I see a lot of the contempt for animals I see in this world stemming from the human hubris of assuming that we are fundamentally separate from the animal world, which we clearly aren't and evolutionary theory explains a lot about how deeply rooted in the rest of the animate world we are.

I of course can't say, but there are those who say that the big guy in the sky takes a REALLY dim view of this sort of hubris.

It is this dialectic of the love which can not accept communion with another, but tries to become absolute which lies in the depths of sin as hubris.

Kind of like the hubris it takes to judge another christian «not worthy?».

«America,» the editorial continued, «is not and, please God, will never become Nazi Germany, but it is only blind hubris that denies it can happen here and, in peculiarly American ways, may be happening here.»

it wasn't until i realized the hubris of such a position that i was able to come to understand where i belonged.

Such excessive concentration of power, Boff believes, leads to domination, centralization, marginalization of the faithful, triumphalism and institutional hubris — an extensive laundry list of aberrations from which not even the Sacred Congregation itself is exempted.

It will lose not because of our hubris, not because we refuse to acknowledge limits or that mistakes may occur, but because by itself the argument is self - defeating.

I know you don't like to accept the fact that what you think is truth may not actually be truth, but that is the hubris and pride that keeps you from being able to open your eyes and admit you might be wrong.

His hubris was such that he could not accept a Rapture occurring and he not being among the Elect.

As Martin P. Nilsson has suggested, hubris is not the sin of overweening pride but of taking upon oneself more in the order of being than one has a right to.

During this time, I have not noticed that my doctors are afflicted with the hubris that regards death as an accident that can be prevented.

Still, I can't decide if the non-response is hubris or pragmatism.

My word, this is hubris, isn't it?