Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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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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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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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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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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