Quotes About Hubris

No one's more dangerous than a man who's convinced of his own moral superiority.

It's the incessant need to know more and more and yet still more, to know everything, that is the fast track to destruction. Knowledge is a good thing, Jeffrey, but the arrogance that so often comes with knowledge is ultimately our undoing. Don't be undone, Jeffrey. Do not be undone by pride in your knowledge.

rotten as the minds of those who believe they can learn all that exists to be known and can control anything they wish to control, who believe that it is their right, above the rights of all other men and women, to shape the destinies of their neighbors, cities, nations, and the Earth entire, according to their whims.

Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

the world is ruled by arrogant narcissists who have exchanged their souls for the promise of power, and in spite of all their talk about justice and the betterment of "the people," they care naught for any but themselves. In their high hubris, they are masters of destruction and press their many kinds of ruination into every crack and crevice, so that even the most remote sanctuary will in time receive the consequences of their insanity.

Yet we humans have the hubris to think we can build eternal cities, stop the aging process, control the climate

What did she do?" "Ruined everything. Out of pride.

make us humbler and give us a better chance of avoiding the arrogance that would destroy our world as they destroyed theirs. The Nihilim, those you call the Screamers

all-seeing and all-knowing. Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

I only said I felt like God, Sassenach, he murmured. I never said I was.

in my arrogance I had omitted to make proper sacrifice—for

I used to say the world was my ATM.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

Montreal, boasted its share of piles, built by the Scottish robber barons, of railway, booze and banking money. They were held together with hubris, a short-term binder at best since many of them had long ago been torn down or donated to McGill University, which needed another Victorian monstrosity like it needed the Ebola virus.

il filosofo è tanto più bestia quanto più vuol esser dio

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

What fools men are to raze a city, destroying tombs, and temples, and sacred places, when they are so soon to die themselves.

hubris on Henry's, too much Greek prose composition—whatever

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Vanity is the Death of Comedy.

The word I use is hubris. Our word for arrogance that scrapes the stars, for violence and towering rage as ugly as the gods.