Quotes About Hubris

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know." ? Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Their position seems to be that if they're going to die then the world must die with them. This is clearly a manifestation of narcissism, and has been named the Götterdämmerung Syndrome.

Götterdämmerung Syndrome

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

The only crime is pride.

The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.

Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. And it is doubly important to remember our origins at a time when we seek to turn ourselves into gods.

by discovering new knowledge and inventing new tools was worse than ludicrous – it was hubris.

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

Arrogant and full of pride that Churchman

One of the deadliest and most venomous destructive concoction is created by mixing false pride with ignorance and power. Regretfully there are more victims of this poisonous formulation than the poison itself.

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

He who thinks they know it all, is bound to take the greatest fall.

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

That took less hubris than thinking this was a message from on high.

Man is still a predatory animal, and we're only kidding ourselves if we think we're the pinnacle of evolution and civilization.

I think what we are witnessing in this country is the slow but inevitable fall of an empire that got too comfortable. In other words, when people are so interested in feathering their own nests and scamming on everybody else or being as macho as the person on the TV or movie screen and not caring about other human beings, of course things are going to start to crumble and collapse around them--just like it did with Rome or Britain or Egypt or the Aztecs.

Los soberbios no hacen más que dañarse a sí mismos.

To design the perfect anti-Unix, write an operating system that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do. And then adds injury to insult by getting it wrong.

We cannot ignore the meaning of mad cow. It is one more warning about unintended consequences, about human arrogance and the blind worship of science.