Famous Quotes / Eric Hoffer
188 Quotations by Eric Hoffer
- 101. The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the begin ...
- 102. The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
- 103. The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th ...
- 104. The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.
- 105. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
- 106. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a ...
- 107. The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
- 108. The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the id ...
- 109. The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w ...
- 110. The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wis ...
- 111. The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a youn ...
- 112. The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
- 113. The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the ...
- 114. The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it ac ...
- 115. The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares no ...
- 116. The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Alta ...
- 117. The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
- 118. The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge ...
- 119. The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggl ...
- 120. The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious vic ...