Quotes About Hubris

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it cant be done.

As proud as Lucifer.

Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.

Every time I get accustomed to low volatility, like we were towards the end of the Greenspan era, and we think we have all the levers under the control... something erupts to remind us that the idea that anybody is in control of everything is hubris.

By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance.

His denials had always gotten him off the hook before, but his repeated success at wiggling out of tight situations incubated a dangerous hubris, which in turn increased his sexual recklessness

When human beings try to become more than human, they quickly become less than human.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.

Rich man has so much EGO that he will not let it go even if means own destruction or causes pain to billions of people.

Pride comes before a fall

Pride only hurts, it never helps.

Whenever Power removes all checks from its path to make its career easy, it triumphantly rides into its ultimate crash of death.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

My biggest problem is overconfidence.

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation.

when we had all the books we needed, we still insisted on finding the highest cliff to jump off. But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

He attended some lectures somewhere and imagines that the devil is no match for him.

The media not only fans our fears, it comforts us in our hubris. Nearly every scare story comes with a Message: You can take control. You can do something to keep bad things from happening to your children and to keep life from throwing you curveballs.

Overriding everything else, the Titanic also marked the end of a general feeling of confidence.

Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last night.