The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
ERIC HOFFERA dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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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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I 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.
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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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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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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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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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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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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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