Quotes Tagged With :hubris

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

The Duke has decreed that the Castle is not cold." The gentleman's lips are almost blue from this lack....

As though I had displeased the gods with my erotic hubris, I managed to be the only bisexual girl in....

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of....

The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.

For many generations…they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin…they reckoned....

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage,....

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain....

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion....