113 Quotes About Hubris

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

What do you think you are doing by infesting the whole world? Because I do it with one puny boat, I am called a pirate; because you do it with a great fleet, you are called an emperor.

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough, and in secret, I shall destroy those others in their sleep, and there will be none to fight back; the earth shall be mine.Such was the folly of princes, and there followed the Flame Deluge.

Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view.

Hubris is when God screws you over for being a smartass.

There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.

No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19