Quotes About Hubris

Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

Let the American infidels bask in their illusion.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Vanity, thy name is

They Thought Themselves only a step lower than the gods, proud in their power over heaven and earth. They grew strong in their knowledge but weak in their wisdom, craving more and still more power, crushing the defenseless. _ Morrighan Book of Holy Text,Vol. IV

but one thing was constant in all the versions I heard, the gods and angels destroyed the world when men aspired to be gods and mercy had fled their hearts.

gods and angels destroyed the world when men aspired to be gods and mercy had fled their hearts.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

I think I palsied fate; and I long took pride in this gift.

the Iraq war was the Ishtar of wars.

I thought I knew everything. There's the challenge fate loves best, isn't it? I was ripe for a fall and so … the apple.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!

For a haughty man, all roads lead to arrogance!

For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

is possible that man can devise new forms of violation. But the essential sin remains more or less the same. Each of us, including the best of men, is tempted to make himself into God.

The notion that "the best and the brightest" are better at governing than their less-credentialed fellow citizens is a myth born of meritocratic hubris.

Among the winners, it generates hubris; among the losers, humiliation and resentment. These moral sentiments are at the heart of the populist uprising against elites. More than a protest against immigrants and outsourcing, the populist complaint is about the tyranny of merit. And the complaint is justified.

Tempting fate, much? If I was Fate, lounging around in stately Fate Mansion drinking Fate Cola and eating a big bowl of Fate Crispies and I heard a dismissive Scots accent saying something like that, I'd be revving up the Fatemobile to teach said Mr Tartanjocks a lesson in humility.