Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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