Famous Quotes / Eric Hoffer
188 Quotations by Eric Hoffer
- 21. Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
- 22. Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
- 23. Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.
- 24. Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
- 25. Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
- 26. Facts are counterrevolutionary.
- 27. Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.
- 28. Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- 29. Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be him ...
- 30. Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
- 31. Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
- 32. Fear is uncertainty.
- 33. Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.
- 34. Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of a ...
- 35. He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.
- 36. How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem e ...
- 37. However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
- 38. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of u ...
- 39. However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we r ...
- 40. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them ...