The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
ERIC HOFFERRudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer 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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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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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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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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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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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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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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