Quotes About Hubris

A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.

Arrogance is incurable.

When man fell to his knees he became the asshole he is today.

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Fate punishes the proud

Fate punishes the proud, and dashes hope

The hubris of imagining that one can judge merit, as distinguished from judging behavior and performance, can be seen in attempts of educators to grade students according to how well they used their own ability, rather than how well they performed relative to some fixed standard or to other students.

The challenge of determining the net balance of numerous windfall advantages and disadvantages for one individual at one given time is sufficiently daunting. To attempt the same for whole broad-brush categories of people, each in differing stages of their individual life cycles, in a complex and changing society, suggests hubris.

Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields...

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

I was by no means free from the bigotry and hubris of consciousness which wants to believe that any halfway decent inspiration is due to one's own merit

We humans have such a high opinion of ourselves—especially my old brethren in the movement. We think we're gods on earth, that by merely changing our behavior or, more important, changing the behavior of the heathen industrialists and capitalists, that we can actually affect the outcome of the planet. We're so unbelievably arrogant and elite, so blind, so stupid. We think we can control the world. It's so tremendously silly I laugh when I think about it.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant.

The wasp's courage intrigued her. Most animals had a natural respect for species bigger than themselves. But not wasps. They exhibited a certain degree of hubris, seeming to think that their stingers would make them the victors regardless of their opponents' size.

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.

From arrogance grow many branches from which evils come, so many as may cause the loss of soul and body, honor and wealth.

A little learning is a dangerous thing and a good deal of it is suffocating.

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

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

Such hubris, Marshal." "I detest false modesty.

Su misma superioridad lo perdió

wretchedness of some and the arrogance of