Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
ERIC HOFFERAn empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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 savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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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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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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We see through others only when we see through 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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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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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