Quotes About Hubris

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

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

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

Woe unto them who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!… Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

I consistently found the pacifist dream intimately connected with the dream of wealth redistribution. My fellow dreamers and I thought we had better ideas than did the masses we imagined we were protecting. In our hubris we thought we were embodying great intelligence and common sense that surpassed all traditional ideas.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses.

Do you ever wonder at the arrogance of men who think they alone exist in the Universe?

Norman L. Geisler

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. I am Ozymandias, king of kings.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

Yes, Icarus fell to earth after flying too close to the sun, but what a glorious fall it must have been. Almost worth the flaming wings tied to his arms, waving helplessly in a shower of

Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.

Her father dropped her off in front of the place where she was to live and left the engine running. Lila Mae removed the two suitcases from the back of the pickup truck. The suitcases were new, with a formidable casing of green plastic. Scratchproof, supposedly. Her father had only been able to afford them because they were, manufacturer's oats aside, scratched — gouged actually, as if an animal had taken them in its fangs to teach them about hubris.

Overconfidence will negate our technological advantage faster than anything the other guy could do.

With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.

The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment. They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst, and fled their cities en masse, leaving them as silent warnings of the perils of ecological hubris.

The pride blurs us the eye.It is our alcohol. (L'orgueil nous brouille l'oeil. Il est notre alcool)

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.