Top 135 Hubris Quotes & Sayings

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

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.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications.

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.'

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.

Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.

Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.

ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.

It's only hubris if I fail.

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?

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

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.

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

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

I know it feels like time is infinite, it's the hubris of youth. Your 40s seem a lifetime away but really they aren't, ask me; I've been down that slippery slope.

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris.

Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

There's a certain attitude that you'll experience in San Francisco. You could call it hubris.

The whole purpose of Russian propaganda is to show that the U.S. and U.S. politics is filled with hubris and hypocrisy and to show it is not better than anyone else.

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.

Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

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.

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

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.

Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim to humility. I see hubris on both sides: a pretence that we could ascend to an objective account of the world, on the one hand, and a pretence that we have the resources to live and act without a sense of there being something to which we answerable, on the other. So both sides are 'villains'.

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

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.

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

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.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.

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.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

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.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.