Language was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFEROne of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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