Quotes About Hubris

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

that there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces

The folly of humankind is that it believes it is impervious to decay

When man makes himself his own Sun—that is, his own God—then he destroys his world. As ex-communist Whittaker Chambers observed, Marx and his minions were merely echoing the first mistake of man, initiated way back in the Garden of Eden: ye shall be as gods.

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's. "And

so full of himself he could have shit limbs.

Gately's snapped to the fact that people of a certain age and level of like life-experience believe they're immortal: college students and alcoholics/addicts are the worst: they deep-down believe they're exempt from the laws of physics and statistics that ironly govern everybody else.

The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong. Better

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

But injustice, arrogance, displayed in the hour of triumph, will never be forgotten or forgiven.

been overthrown by their own protégés! Remember how often leaders have chosen to treat their friends like slaves—and then perished in the revolutions caused by their idiotic methods! How many powerful men have craved to dominate the world—and by overreaching have lost everything they once possessed!

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.

If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

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Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

He doesn't die very differently than mortals, although I am sure it would gall him to know that.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!