Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
ERIC HOFFER
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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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