To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFERCreativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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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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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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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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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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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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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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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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