Quotes About Hubris

A man's stomach is the reason he does not easily take himself for a God.

Today a man with knowledge might easily feel like god transformed into an animal.

The physical theory suffers from the same affect as humanism; it attempts to live on its own fat and breathe the very air which it has already exhaled from its scientific lungs.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

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.

ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

Lo, all our pomp of yesterdayIs one with Nineveh and Tyre!

Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

No one rules the world forever, the gods grow jealous. If someone is constantly successful or too powerful - be it Alexander or Napolean or Hitler - the gods will eventually destroy him.

Hubris. Blindness. Shame. These are the minions of darkness. Lesser agents to anger, fear and hate. But agents all the same. He has allowed them to enter his thoughts but has refused to face them. To face his greatest failure . But for a Jedi, failure is the greatest teacher . Forgiveness is the path to strength. Understanding is the path to peace. And in that peace… is the power to move mountains .

Faith does not mean believing in the literal-factuality of the stories regardless of how improbable they seem. Rather, faith is about something far more important. It is about our relationship with God—about centering in God, being loyal (faithful) to God, and about trusting in God. Faith is the opposite of hubris and anxiety.

Perhaps he's reached that state of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.

In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios.

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.

It must be an amazing mind-set, Afra thought, to consider one's self the only being of worth in the galaxy. There had been Humans who had had such delusions. They had generally died because of them

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

El orgullo engendra siempre destrucción: el orgullo engulle vivos la mente y el corazón y el alma.