The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
ERIC HOFFERAnger is a prelude to courage.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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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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