On hubris.

“And the devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Conceit spoils the finest genius.”

Louisa May Alcott

“I’m the greatest golfer! I just haven’t played yet.”

Muhammad Ali

“Once, many, many years ago, I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.”

John Foster Dulles

“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”

Thomas Sowell

“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”

Anatole France

“Should man call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?”

Michel de Montaigne

“Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.”

P.J. O’Rourke

“Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.”

Athanasius Kircher

“When the divine element in them became weakened, and their human traits became predominant, they ceased to be able to carry their prosperity with moderation.”

Plato

“Zeal moves the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he does not know.”

David Halberstam

“He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Arrogance is in everything I do! It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.”

Coco Chanel

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

Edmund Burke

“I am incapable of mediocrity.”

Serge Gainsbourg

“A fool’s mouth lashes out with pride, but the lips of the wise protect them.”

Proverbs 14:3