Quotes About Hubris

The only person, if you're a religious person, who's always right is God. And if you make the mistake of thinking that you, like God, are always right, and that you, like God, always know everything, then it seems to me you're riding for a fall.

That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

Most entrepreneurs, when they become successful, they turn into idiots... It's the same thing with rockstars and entrepreneurs: big money and big egos.

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

Wozu Türme bauen wie der Himalaja Wenn man sie nicht umwerfen kann Damit es ein Gelächter gibt?

For excess breeds hubris, when great prosperity comes to men of unsound mind.16

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall

Put simply, between ecological destruction and technological hubris, the human experiment is now in question.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable French skunk pursuing his would-be kitty paramour, left his mark on me: became an instant emblem of odoriferous hubris, hedonistic bad behavior. He was an entry-level Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a rookie Marquis de Sade.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.

All sufferings come from false pride.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When

Arrogance is all in a young warrior

In our age, mankind collectively has given itself over to a degree of hubris surpassing everything known in former ages.

The tale of Enron is a story of human weakness, of hubris and greed and rampant self-delusion; of ambition run amok; of a grand experiment in the deregulated world; of a business model that didn't work; and of smart people who believed their next gamble would cover their last disaster—and who couldn't admit they were wrong.

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

Must our imaginations be so feeble as that, Thomas? If the Union dies, as our old president says, it will be from lack of imagination… It will be from Southern hubris, and our love of wealth, and the brutality of our hearts!