Hubris Quotes

• 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

  Integrity, Loss, Thinking

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• 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.

  Plato

  Law, Giving, Office

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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Pride, Average

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• It's only hubris if I fail.

  Julius Caesar

  Failing, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Gaius Julius Caesar". "Rome. Caesarion", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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

  Guy R. McPherson

  Humble, Feelings, Doe

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• The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

  Jim Rohn

  Ignorance, Conceited, Arrogance

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2017

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• 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

  Punishment, Patterns, Form

  Mary Midgley (2004). “The Myths We Live by”, p.104, Psychology Press

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• 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

  Stars, Kings, Drama

  "THE AVENGERS Star Tom Hiddleston Writes Eloquent Editorial in Defense of Superhero Movies" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Renewable Resources, Resources

  Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 23, 2009.

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

  Lisa Randall

  Thinking, Way

  Interview in Discover magazine Vol. 27, No. 07, July 2006.

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

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Humility, Men, Bows

  "Don't Obstruct the Sun". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• Hubris and science are incompatible.

  Douglas Preston

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

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Pride, Thinking

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.173, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Put aside your pride,
  Set down your arrogance,
  And remember your grave.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Pride

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

  Thucydides

  Opportunity, Deeds, Wealth

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• Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Religious, Islamic, Humble

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

  Kevin Spacey

  Victim

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• 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

  Chinese, Suffering, Arrogance

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• Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

  Moby

  Degrees

  "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview with Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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

  Michael Dirda

  Kindness, Ambition, What Matters

  "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

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• 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

  Cancer, Brain, Environmental

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

  Jimmy Iovine

  Humility, Boring

  "Jimmy Iovine Talks Bruce Springsteen, Recites R. Kelly at USC Commencement". Interview with Colin Stutz, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Fear, Islamic, Pride

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 72,

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• What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

  John Waters

  Pride, Important, Needs

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• Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.

  William E. Burrows

  Believe, Technology, Agency

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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