Quotes About Hubris

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?