Quotes About Hubris

Where there are repeated wars, the people are weakened; when they score repeated victories, rulers become haughty. Let haughty rulers command weakened people, and rare is the nation that will not perish as a result.

En todos los ocasos de la Humanidad ha surgido la tentación de endiosar a los animales: lo hicieron las civilizaciones bárbaras, de Egipto a Cartago, que imaginaron un panteón que era en realidad un zoológico amedrentador, poblado por alimañas; y lo volvieron a hacer las civilizaciones refinadas, cuando llegó su decrepitud

We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

Guess you play the part of God long enough, you begin to believe your own method acting.

A Dios, como al doctor Frankenstein su monstruo, el hombre se le fue de la smanos.

We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that all our civilisation has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden sceptres.

No, not like me. He's no better than the other Fellmottes. Another rich man bent on what he thinks the world owes him, and willing to pay any price, as long as it's in the blood of others.

A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: "As soon as we create life in a test tube, we won't need God anymore." I answered: "This happened once before when man ruled God out and proposed the Tower of Babel. It ended in frustration, confusion, and judgment.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

It's pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

I had a great job, living a great lifestyle... and just started doing the wrong things, getting a little bit cocky.

I love the story behind the Vasa Museum: in the 17th century, the Swedish king was trying to make a statement by building a huge ship that would sail around Europe carrying the Swedish flag and proving that we were a force to be reckoned with, and basically, the ship was top-heavy, and so it went 300 or so yards and sank.

The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.

Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.

The arrogance of these people!

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his great sickening cupRecklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.