Robert Winston Quotes

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

People don't generally listen to scientists much.

I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexander. But I don't believe I am the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

DuPont had the idea there was nobody in the universe who could tell them anything.

I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.

One hallmark of our era is the collapse of public trust in government and experts of all kinds. But it’s hard to fault the public when so many experts and their policies have failed in such spectacular fashion. The inflation that progressives helped to cause, failed to anticipate, and then ignored is one more example of earned public distrust.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

It's only hubris if I fail.

I'm sure part of the baggage that I bring having played a lot of villains is also pertinent to the movie [Before I Go To Sleep], because I'm sure people look at me and think, "Oh, I'm not sure I trust him or not."