Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
ERIC HOFFERThe beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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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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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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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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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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