Quotes about Hubris
however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make;
- Herman Melville
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.
- Bill Gates
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
- GK Chesterton
A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: "As soon as we create life in a test tube, we won't need God anymore." I answered: "This happened once before when man ruled God out and proposed the Tower of Babel. It ended in frustration, confusion, and judgment.
- Billy Graham
Pride is the master sin of the devil.
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin
In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.
- Margaret Atwood
I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.
- Anne Lamott
Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.
- Ayn Rand
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- LM Montgomery
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
He is a king over all the children of pride.
- Anonymous
Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman.
- Anonymous