Quotes About Hubris

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

Sometimes I'll make a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible.

Fate is what is given to us; destiny is what we are summoned to become. In the interplay of the two, human character plays a role. Hubris, or the fantasy that we know enough to know enough, seduces us toward choices that lead to unintended consequences. Hamartia, the failure to see clearly enough, to see humbly enough, is a lens through which we imperfectly envision the world, unavoidably distorting and reductive, but convincing at the moment nonetheless.

As with all megalomaniacs, he had no handles. He was the type of man the Spanish call sin dios, sin verguenza, without God or shame.

It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications.

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.

When stardom gets on your head, you don't even realise.

It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're impervious to certain forces that the rest of us have to live with.

Men have become fools with their tools.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

It is the pride of kings that throws man kind into confusion.

it is the pride of kings which throw mankind into confusion.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

One of man's greatest flaws is that he thinks far too highly of what he does.

Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity: General George S. Patton.

Of course, it couldn't last. Those whom the gods would destroy utterly, they first give a taste of heaven.

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.

Men ought not to play God before they learn to be men.

ABCs of business decay, which are arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency.

Loss of focus is what most worries Charlie and me when we contemplate investing in businesses that in general look outstanding. All too often, we've seen value stagnate in the presence of hubris or of boredom that caused the attention of managers to wander.

One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people.

Then there was David, lording it up at Buckingham Palace, thinking he was king of the shit heap. That guy was definitely nuts, like every dictator that had gone before him. Nero, Caligula, Henry the Eighth, Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Margaret Thatcher, Colonel Gaddafi, that crazy North Korean bastard who was in Team America, Kim Jong whatever.