The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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