Quotes about Hubris

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Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God. — indonesia123
Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee — indonesia123
If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God. — indonesia123
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner — George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes. — Clifford Cohen
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 eve — Eric Metaxas, Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness
We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Beware of puny two-legged creatures claiming to be made in the image of God. — Marty Rubin
In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their ga — Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of — Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta, Degrees: Thought Capsules
It doesn’t take long for your fortunes to turn. One second you’re fluttery as a bird, the next you’re on the ground with — Saim Cheeda
Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better. — Criss Jami, Healology
f you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest. — Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not p — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fierce — Bruce Crown, Chronic Passions
The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I — Mark Twain
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. No — Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly — Albert Camus, The Fall