Hubris is when God screws you over for being a smartass.

“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,…

— Michael Pollan

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

— Larry Wall

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

— Thucydides

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

— Garrett Hardin

It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to say about…

— Alice McDermott

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails…

— Plato

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

— Marianne Williamson

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to…

— Hugh Howey

“Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.”

— Athanasius Kircher

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being…

— Cynthia Breazeal

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

— Jimmy Iovine

“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods…

— Russell D. Moore

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…

— Tom Hiddleston

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

— Brian Aldiss

“No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.”

— Babara Tuchman