Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
ERIC HOFFERJesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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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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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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 can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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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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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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