Quotes About Hubris

Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it. Rhetoric, fourth century BCE (BC)

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.

Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

The only crime is pride.

Look and learn all citizens of Thebes. This is Oedipus. He, who read the famous riddle, and we hailed chief of men, All envied his power, glory, and good fortune. Now upon his head the sea of disaster crashes down. Mortality is man's burden. Keep your eyes fixed on your last day. Call no man happy until he reaches it, and finds rest from suffering.

La insolencia produce al tirano.

I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me. Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you. Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever the please. Antigone to Theben's king Creon

I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me. Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you. Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever they please. Antigone to Theben's king Creon

The mighty words of the proud are paid in full with mighty blows of fate, and at long last those blows will teach us wisdom.

O gra?ani otadžbine Tebe, evo Edipa, znalca ?udesne zagonetke i prvog ?oveka, ?iju sre?u niko nije gledao bez zavisti! Gledajte u kakav ponor sudbe grozne pade on! Zato nikog, dan dok onaj poslednji ne do?eka, ne?u proslavljati kao sre?na, pre no doplovi kraju veka svog a nikakav ne pogodi ga jad.

I cannot waste time in these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.

IDENTITY CLUE 12: SHE HAS BEEN PROUD AGAINST THE LORD "…for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel" (Jeremiah 50:29d) ". . . 'See, I am against you, O arrogant one,' declares the LORD, the LORD Almighty, 'for your day has come, the time for you to be punished." (Jeremiah 50:31) "And the most proud shall stumble and fall…" (Jeremiah 50:32a)

If there were honorary degrees for assholes, he'd be a doctor of everything," Lily said.

The same issues illuminate the transformation of American Catholicism. This study emphasizes the period between World War I and the early 1970s, when the Catholic system of parishes and schools first expanded into every section of the northern cities, and then, within the last quarter century, began a retreat from what now seemed institutional hubris.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

How easy it is to believe yourself a god by the heart, and how hard it is to be one by the mind!

Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody -- if it is, God's days have got to be numbered.

Really, his self-sufficiency is too much. I can't stand that Jupiter Olympian air of his--the only mythological character exempt, they say, from ill-luck.

The attitude was a sense of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. A feeling of this kind leads to ignorance of the world and of others because it suppresses curiosity.

Folly is a child of power.

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," mottoes with a similar meaning: You are only human, so don't try more than you are able (or you will pay the price). A recurring theme in Greek myth is the man or woman who loses sight of human limitations and acts arrogantly and with violence, as if immortal. And pays a terrible price.