A Quote by Ralph Ellison

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. — © Ralph Ellison
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.
Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
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.
irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.
Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.
The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.
Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.
I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.
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