113 Quotes About Hubris

Don't try to remake the world in your image. That was God's mistake.

f you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.

Every medicine is vain.

The serene confidence with which Western journalists and liberal academics prescribe solutions to our [Singapore's] problems is a source of constant wonder to us.

Mis-define the law of brotherly love by giving men a claim on their neighbors and you have destroyed freedom, justified despotism, and assumed that there can be a master mind, in an ordinary human being, as the mind of God.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence.

His life had in fact been colossal and, like everything colossal, pointless.

Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," mottoes with a similar meaning: You are only human, so don't try more than you are able (or you will pay the price). A recurring theme in Greek myth is the man or woman who loses sight of human limitations and acts arrogantly and with violence, as if immortal. And pays a terrible price.