Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
ERIC HOFFERIt is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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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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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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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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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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