It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
ERIC HOFFERAbsolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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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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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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Children are the keys of paradise.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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