Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFERTo learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
-
-
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER -
Language was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFER -
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
ERIC HOFFER -
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER -
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
ERIC HOFFER -
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
ERIC HOFFER -
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
ERIC HOFFER -
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
ERIC HOFFER -
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
ERIC HOFFER -
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER -
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
ERIC HOFFER -
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
ERIC HOFFER -
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 -
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER -
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
ERIC HOFFER