We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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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 hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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