Quotes About Hubris

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.

My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power.

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide archOf the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space.Kingdoms are clay.

Failure has gone to his head.

One thing I do know, and I believe you know it too, is that what he is doing goes against the very grain of the universe. He's taking the path of Icarus, and no matter how you mix the wax, it melts when it gets too close to the sun.

religious leader." Such pride is very dangerous

That little Kennedy... he thought he was a god.

We once stood on the shoulders of Giants in humility. We now piggyback on Dwarfs in arrogance.

Pride leads to down fall o f man.

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Ahlak?n bahts?zl??? : her ÅŸeyi daha iyi bilmesi ve bu yüzden de hiçbir ÅŸey öÄŸrenememesi.

Man's fatal flaw is misplaced optimism.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

You live that long, things start happening to you. You get too impressed with yourself. Ends up, you think you're God. Suddenly the little people, thirty, maybe forty years old, well, they don't really matter anymore. You've seen whole societies rise and fall, and you start to feel you're standing outside it all, and none of it really matters to you. And maybe you'll start snuffing those little people, just like picking daisies, if they get under your feet.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

I stood with Sherman, watching them go, and wondered at Jonathan Green's lack of concern. I was thinking that maybe he was crazy, or arrogant, or brimming with the fatal flaw of hubris, but you never know. Maybe he was just used to winning.