The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
ERIC HOFFERFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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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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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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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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