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 HOFFERTo know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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