Quotes About Hubris

God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

His head was turned by too great success.

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

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Vanity dulls the senses.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

Ze voelden zich goden op de Olympus, die neerzagen op het ijverige, maar dom aandoende gewriemel van de mieren onder zich [...] Weg Olympus. Ze tuimelden naar beneden volgens een nieuwe wet van Newton, die zegt dat zelfvertrouwen gelijk is aan verbeelding gedeeld door werkelijkheid.

a man, who like Satan, momentarily thought himself the equal of God and who, with all the humility of a Christian, came to realize in God's hands alone reside supreme power and infinite wisdom.

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.

No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

Los antiguos griegos lo llamaban la tragedia del hibris. El rey que peca de exceso de orgullo recibe el castigo de los dioses.

The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic.