You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFERAdd a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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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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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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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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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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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