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 HOFFERI have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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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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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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