Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFERAn empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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A 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.
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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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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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