Eric Hoffer Quotes

American - Writer July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Trust, World, Cheating, Feeling, Someone

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Hope, Soul, Disappointment, Expectation

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. - Eric Hoffer

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Thankful, Blessings, Us, Hardest, Master

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. - Eric Hoffer

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

People, Them, Propaganda, Deceive, Does

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

Happy, You, Enough, Never, Need, Get

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nature, Creativity, Ability, Order

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.

Man, Child, Playground, Uniqueness, His

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Empty, Anything, Head, Difficulty, Hence

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.

Power, Lie, True, Only, Come, Make

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Passion, Thought, Society, Action, Pass

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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.

Learning, Change, World, Find, Earth

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Kindness, Own, Kind, Become, Being, Made

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Leader, Language, Talk, Must, Realist

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. - Eric Hoffer

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

People, Them, Who, Hand, Bite, Lick

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

God, Stars, Sky, Space, Back, Somewhere

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Mind, Evil, Person, More, Than, Doubts

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Eyes, People, Reflection, Escape, See

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

Good, Man, Time, Great, Good Luck, Die

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Faith, Religion, Know, Person, Brand

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Nature, Men, Human Nature, Angels, Turn

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Teacher, Time, Age, Busy, Young, Learn

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Good, Bad, More, Than, Contagious, Prone

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Best, Art, Grow, Know, Living, Old

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Lie, Loudest, Ourselves

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

Nature, Man, Mistake, She, Never, Her

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

New, Crisis, Self-Esteem, Adjustment

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