The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
ERIC HOFFERThe quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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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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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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