The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
ERIC HOFFERFar more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
-
-
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
ERIC HOFFER -
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFER -
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
ERIC HOFFER -
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
ERIC HOFFER -
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFER -
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
ERIC HOFFER -
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
ERIC HOFFER -
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFER -
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER -
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER -
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
ERIC HOFFER -
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER -
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER -
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
ERIC HOFFER -
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
ERIC HOFFER







