We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in 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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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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