Eric Hoffer Quotes (84 quotations)
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1. A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. - Eric Hoffer
2. A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. - Eric Hoffer
3. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. - Eric Hoffer
4. Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. - Eric Hoffer
5. All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. - Eric Hoffer
6. Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. - Eric Hoffer
7. Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. - Eric Hoffer
8. Children are the keys of paradise. - Eric Hoffer
9. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. - Eric Hoffer
10. Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. - Eric Hoffer
11. Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. - Eric Hoffer
12. Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. - Eric Hoffer
13. Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. - Eric Hoffer
14. He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more. - Eric Hoffer
15. However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable. - Eric Hoffer
16. I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. - Eric Hoffer
17. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer
18. In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer
19. It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. - Eric Hoffer
20. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. - Eric Hoffer
21. It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor. - Eric Hoffer
22. It is easier to love humanity... than one's neighbor. - Eric Hoffer
23. It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. - Eric Hoffer
24. It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. - Eric Hoffer
25. It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. - Eric Hoffer
2. A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. - Eric Hoffer
3. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. - Eric Hoffer
4. Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. - Eric Hoffer
5. All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. - Eric Hoffer
6. Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. - Eric Hoffer
7. Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. - Eric Hoffer
8. Children are the keys of paradise. - Eric Hoffer
9. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. - Eric Hoffer
10. Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. - Eric Hoffer
11. Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. - Eric Hoffer
12. Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. - Eric Hoffer
13. Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. - Eric Hoffer
14. He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more. - Eric Hoffer
15. However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable. - Eric Hoffer
16. I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. - Eric Hoffer
17. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer
18. In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer
19. It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. - Eric Hoffer
20. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. - Eric Hoffer
21. It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor. - Eric Hoffer
22. It is easier to love humanity... than one's neighbor. - Eric Hoffer
23. It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. - Eric Hoffer
24. It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. - Eric Hoffer
25. It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. - Eric Hoffer
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