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. Eric Hoffer

Trust, World, Cheating, Someone, Feeling

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

Thankful, Blessings, Master, Us, Count

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. Eric Hoffer

People, Propaganda, Deceive, Themselves

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

Nature, Creativity, Ability, Order

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

Learning, Change, World, Earth, Find

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

Power, Lie, True, Only, Absolute, Come

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer

Kindness, Judge, Kind, Own, Become, Made

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. Eric Hoffer

People, Hand, Bite, Lick, Who, Boot

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. Eric Hoffer

Evil, Ugly, Hide, Greatest, Emptiness

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. Eric Hoffer

Stars, God, Sky, Space, Back, Passionate

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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. Eric Hoffer

Be Different, Desire, Different, Intense

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. Eric Hoffer

Passion, Society, Thought, Action, Pass

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer

People, Free, Please, Other, Each

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. - Eric Hoffer

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. Eric Hoffer

Fire, Feel, Free, Escape, Even, Pan

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

Man, Child, Uniqueness, Playground, His

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

Leader, Language, Talk, Visionary, Must

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Eric Hoffer

Good, Alone, Compassion, Good And Evil

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves. Eric Hoffer

Beginning, Thought, Others, Only, Also

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

Pride, Self-Respect, Like, Substitute

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer

Happiness, Search, Chief, Unhappiness

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

Good, Bad, More, Assume, Than, Potent

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Eric Hoffer

Failure, Loneliness, House, Own, Than

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. Eric Hoffer

Surprise, Doing, Feeling, Pleasure, Us

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. Eric Hoffer

Individual, Own, Existence, Eternal, Who

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. Eric Hoffer

Self-Sacrifice, Form, Dissipation

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. Eric Hoffer

Mother, Man, Woman, Child, Interesting

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