Quotes About Hubris

Arrogance and stupidity is a deadly combination.

With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

The natural, original distemper of Man is presumption.

We wanted to destroy the world. With our messianism we nearly destroyed it. Maybe they with their selfishness will save it.

The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts-- and the purity of their intentions

In Dune and Dune Messiah , he [Frank Herbert] was cautioning against pride and overconfidence, that form of narcissism described in Greek tragedies that invariably led to the great fall.

Humans were foolish to build their own competitors—but they couldn't help themselves. —ERASMUS, philosophical datanotes

There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives will be.

La ciencia peca de arrogancia al creer que, cuanto más desarrollamos la tecnología y más aprendemos, mejor será nuestra vida.

T)he downfall of the wise and the mighty comes not from being strong or wise, but from thinking you are stronger and wiser than you truly are, than any being can truly be.

The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that belived they were eternal.

Stranahan told her not to mistake arrogance for pride. A guy like Chaz can revive his ego with the palm of his hand.

Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. That's God's truth. Who do you think you are that you should worry, for crying out loud? It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is in fact a form of hubris.

to alter what She has created is an astounding display of arrogance and foolishness.

When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.

It was foolish to trust in luck once; twice was arrogance of the worst kind.

There's nothing more terrible than someone out to do the world a favor.

Arrogance, like anger, is often a fatal flaw.

tiny mortals tampering with chariots of the gods.

Japan is like a young woman who thinks too much of herself. She's bound to get herself into trouble.

As the old saying goes: With great power comes the total fuckin' certainty that you're gonna turn into a cunt.

For us to demand that the Biblical text be scientifically or historically "accurate" as we define those terms is not a high view of Scripture, it is a low view of Scripture. It is in fact imposing our own prejudices upon the text by refusing to understand it within its context. This is called cultural imperialism and it is the height of hubris, or human pride.

Hubris clobbered by Nemesis

My shorter definition of SF (is) Hubris clobbered by nemesis.