Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
ERIC HOFFERAll leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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.
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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.
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To 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.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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