Eric Hoffer Quotes - BrainyQuote

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

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

Thankful Blessings Us Master Hardest

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

Trust Feeling World Cheating

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.

Sky Stars God Space

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

Hope Soul Disappointment Too Much

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Change Learning World Earth

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.

Evil Ugly Hide Us

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

Mind Evil More Person

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 Brand

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Strength Weak Imitation Rudeness

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

People Deceive Propaganda Themselves

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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

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

Nature Creativity Ability Order

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

Kindness Own Being Become

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

Mother Giving Craving Oneself

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

Leader Language Talk Visionary

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Leadership Degree Some Effective

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

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

New Self-Esteem Crisis Adjustment

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

Beginning Thought Only Others

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Water Wine Real He

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Believe Truth Only Everyday

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Men Power Evil Opinion

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Life Purpose Meaning Hatred

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

Kindness Judge Own Being

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 Society Thought Action

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Lie Loudest Ourselves

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