70 Hubris Quotes
Following is our list of hubris quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about antigone hubris.
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Famous Hubris Quotes
It's only hubris if I fail. — Julius Caesar
Pride and excess bring disaster for man. — Xunzi
Arrogance leaves us blind to our weaknesses. — Adam Grant
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth. — Phil Heath
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom. — Wilfred Bion
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. — Benjamin Franklin
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools. — Alexander Pope
Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all. — Jewish Proverbs
It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom. — Siad Barre
Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. — Sophocles
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors. — John Calvin
Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others. — Guy R. McPherson
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Short Hubris Quotes
- Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant. — Hamza Yusuf
- Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
- The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. — Jim Rohn
- Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring. — Jimmy Iovine
- Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris — Thucydides
- Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. — Larry Wall
- Hubris and science are incompatible. — Douglas Preston
- We're all victims of our own hubris at times. — Kevin Spacey
- Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. — Dejan Stojanovic
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When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation. — Nouman Ali Khan
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. — Tom Hiddleston
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity. — Charles Koch
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception. — Terence McKenna
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. — David Foreman
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this — Steve Albini
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story — Oliver North
Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started. — Mary Midgley
Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris. — Terence McKenna
The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept. — Paul Craig Roberts
It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is. — Lisa Randall
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man. — Philip K. Dick
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords. — Andrew Bacevich
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources. — P. J. O'Rourke
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. — Ralph Ellison
There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to. — Jason Segel
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness. — Michael Dirda
Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else. — Rick Riordan
My fatal flaw is hubris. The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse. What could be worse than hummus? — Rick Riordan
It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to say about anything - people who tweet, you might call them. I find this so astonishing, my own hubris pales in comparison. — Alice McDermott
Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris. — Andrew Greeley
So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn’t have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead. — Max Tegmark
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. — Michael Pollan
I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it. — Bill Skarsgard
The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris. — Richard Tarnas
The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret] Thatcher. Who'd have thunk she'd have been the first to go? She was the invisible author of the book, really. She created the conditions and the hubris whereby that whole culture flourished. — Irvine Welsh
Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses. — Kieron Gillen
With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work. — Patrick Dempsey
It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them. — Hugh Howey
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the British Empireearlier, and it will certainly be true of the Chinese Empire in the future. — Cornel West
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