Famous Quotes / Eric Hoffer
188 Quotations by Eric Hoffer
- 141. There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
- 142. There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
- 143. They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi ...
- 144. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but ...
- 145. Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers a ...
- 146. Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the ...
- 147. To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
- 148. To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
- 149. To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has ha ...
- 150. To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
- 151. To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of ...
- 152. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pus ...
- 153. To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
- 154. To the excessively fearful, the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain ...
- 155. To the old, the new is usually bad news.
- 156. To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity ...
- 157. Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude.
- 158. We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
- 159. We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
- 160. We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and con ...