Quotes about Hubris
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
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
— Frank Herbert
But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.
— Frank Herbert