Quotes About Hubris

El ego, después de todo, era la raíz de todo mal.

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

There's an arrogance of assuming that we can interpret the past - that we've left the right footnotes, that we're doing the right reclamation projects, that we're not overcorrecting. Actually, we have no idea where we're going. It's this Tower of Babel type scenario.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!

Just because the Panjandrums know how to run cheeseburg stands, they think they know how to run a Convox.

The surest way to get your head blown off is to have it up your ass.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must fall with the greatest loss

Empires in decay, blinded by their hubris and unable to accept their diminishing power, refuse to confront hard and unpleasant facts. They replace diplomacy, multilateralism, and politics with unilateral threats and the blunt instrument of war.