Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
ERIC HOFFERFair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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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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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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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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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 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 passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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