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.
ERIC HOFFERA man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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