Quotes on Hubris

So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn’t have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.

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

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

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.

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

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

When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.

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

Put aside your pride, _x000D_ _x000D_ Set down your arrogance, _x000D_ _x000D_ And remember your grave.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

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.