Quotes About Hubris

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

El orgullo va delante de la destrucción, y un espíritu altanero, delante de una caída»

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.

The Greeks had a word for ultimate self-consciousness which I find illuminating: hubris: pride: pride in the sense of putting oneself in the center of the universe. The strange and terrible thing is that this kind of total self-consciousness invariably ends in self-annihilation. The great tragedians have always understood this, from Sophocles to Shakespeare. We witness it in history in such people as Tiberius, Eva Perón, Hider. I

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

A proud man will be set against all that is holy, for he is the God of his own world.

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

Preachers love only their own voices.

That will be a time when mankind will become its own deity and will destroy the world.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

Pride is the master sin of the devil.

Tiene miedo, dijo, siempre fue así; tiene miedo de las enfermedades y la muerte. Giannì, todas las personas soberbias, todas las que se lo tienen muy creído hacen como si la muerte no existiera.

Ylpeys ja väärämielisyys kostautuvat usein.

Ylimielisyys on lyhytikäinen elätti.

His sin, indeed, had been Pride. And the pride was still there, nowhere more apparent than in his inability to come face to face with himself.

Arrogance diminishes wisdom

I think that both camps are guilty of underestimating the challenge of arriving at economic understanding. Those economists who claim the mantle of science are guilty of hubris. Noneconomists who think that their own intuition is superior to economic reasoning are dangerously misguided.

Science is full of questions and often those questions do not have answers. Expertise on the other hand, is a conclusion, it's full of hubris incapable of acknowledging its own mistakes.

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.

Los seres que abrigan una idea tan elevada de sí mismos nunca imaginan que puedan llegar a caer algún día. Cuando se produce la caída, estos seres se vacían, azorados, desprevenidos; su sustancia se evapora en el estupor del fracaso. Sin medias tintas, ni matices, y sin previo aviso. Así son.