Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFERYou can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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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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