Eric Hoffer Quotes

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
Eric Hoffer

Understand, Absolutely

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer

Mind, Nothing, Human

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
Eric Hoffer

Else, Anyone, Weak

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer

Strong, Fashion, Both

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Eric Hoffer

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Eric Hoffer

Down, Ourselves, Pleasure

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Eric Hoffer

Time, Good, Great

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Eric Hoffer

Almost, Grievance, Poignant

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Eric Hoffer

Often, Passionate, Strike

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
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Leadership, Degree, Effective

Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children, Paradise, Keys

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
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Mother, Giving, Oneself

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Eric Hoffer

Facts are counterrevolutionary.
Eric Hoffer

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
Eric Hoffer

Mind, Prejudices, Hang

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Eric Hoffer

Death, Living, Longer

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Suffering, Taste, Actual

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Sometimes, Desire, Seems

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
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Nature, Him, Her

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Eric Hoffer

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer

Pride, Substitute, Variants

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Eric Hoffer

Sometimes, Loss, Prejudice

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
Eric Hoffer

Faith, Men, Away

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Power, Future, Shape

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
Eric Hoffer

Soul, Number, Weakness

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 25, 1902

Died: May 21, 1983

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