Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFERWe 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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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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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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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 the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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 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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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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