We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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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.
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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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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