Quotes Tagged With :hubris

Unbridled talent can handicap you with hubris.

Every medicine is vain.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur,....

What magic was this, brewed from equal parts of age-old memories and total oblivion. One could have believed....

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual....

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist,....

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured....

There is no small irony here: An administration which flaunted its intellectual superiority and its superior....

The sciences have two extremities which meet. The first is the ignorance in which men find themselves....