The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
ERIC HOFFERWe run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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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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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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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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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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