Quotes About Hubris

He is a king over all the children of pride.

Whenever he can, Werner records what the partisans say on magnetic tape. Everybody, he is learning, likes to hear themselves talk. Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.

Everybody, he is learning, likes to hear themselves talk. Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.

If you stand too close to the sun you can't complain when all you become as a silhouette.

you choose to stand too close to the sun you can't complain when you become nothing more than a silhouette.

They think, always, that they are cleverer than they really are, that they have the ability to defeat the police, the rule of law, the very essence of society in order to achieve their ends.

The whole purpose of Russian propaganda is to show that the U.S. and U.S. politics is filled with hubris and hypocrisy and to show it is not better than anyone else.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

It's been an old saw in science fiction for a long time, since 'Frankenstein,' that we're going to create life that's going to turn on us.

Hubris, that was the word — believing you were too good, too strong, invulnerable. The world had a way of teaching you that you weren't invulnerable.

Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.

And his father was right: trying for some ultimate control of the universe, you only built weapons with which the universe eventually defeated you.

Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.

But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

as witness the story of Oedipus, hounded by the gods for marrying his mother, even in ignorance.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

You can overintellectualize these Greek letters," Pflug reflected, referring to the alphas, betas, and gammas in the option trader's argot. "One Greek word that ought to be in there is hubris.

Pride Goeth before the fall.