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In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer -
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
Eric Hoffer
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer -
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer -
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer -
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer -
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric Hoffer -
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Eric Hoffer
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer -
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer -
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer -
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
Eric Hoffer -
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer -
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer
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It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Eric Hoffer -
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer -
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
Eric Hoffer -
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric Hoffer -
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer -
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Eric Hoffer
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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer -
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer -
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer -
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Eric Hoffer