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Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Jean de la Bruyere

. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

William Pickens

The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

Friedrich August von Hayek

It’s hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Lisa Randall

We’re on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

Michael S. Heiser

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Michel de Montaigne

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

George Bernard Shaw

Man, only – rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation’s plan.

George Canning

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Henry Ward Beecher

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

George R. R. Martin

Feeling superior doesn’t make one superior. Hubris does not humble others.

Guy R. McPherson

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history’s fingers, down it goes.

Alan Moore

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

David Hume

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Laura Lippman

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

John Steinbeck

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

John Maynard Keynes

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

John Selden

The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’

John Templeton

When you’re the most happening person at the party, it’s time to leave

Kelly Cutrone

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

Jimmy Iovine

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

John Calvin

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

Blaise Pascal

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Stephen Vizinczey

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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