Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
ERIC HOFFERTo change everything, simply change your attitude.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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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 capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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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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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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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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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