Quotes About Hubris

The steward had been more circumspect after that. He had learned - as Odysseus had learned after a certain number of years of his wanderings - that his guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.

Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. Wendell Berry

Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature.

Ruin, comes when the trader, whose heart is lifted up by wealth, becomes ruler

Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was

unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning

Whoever has built a new city in Delhi has always lost it: the Pandava brethren, Prithviraj Chauhan, Feroz Shah Tughluk, Shah Jehan ... They all built new cities and they all lost them. We were no exception.

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.

An examination of the work of the social doctors, however, shows that they are only more ignorant and more presumptuous than other people. We

Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

The penalty for excessive ambition – what the Greeks called hubris – is exhaustion, while the price for resting on one's laurels is progressive insignificance and eventual decay.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

Elena Pavlovna was for him [Tsar Nicholas I] the personification of those empty people who talked not only about science and poetry, but also about governing people, imagining that they could govern themselves better than he, Nicholas, governed them.

It is pride that makes error and discord among men.

Pride is a fool's fortress

Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

Agamemnon reproached Clytemnestra for her servile effusiveness of speech: "As a man, not as a god, let me be honored." The delusion of divinity in a ruler was a product of their civic decadence.

Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.